Haha - yeah its a (painful) process. My apologies to Joel. I saw that he did some earlier work on that, and he deserves credit for it. I'll mark Joel's answer as correct then I tried creating tnsnames.ora in the directory you suggested, but in the sampleapp image, it appears the directory structure does not quite match.…

Thanks Steve! That makes sense, and I will make note of that for future reference. Although in my SampleApp image, I see a $TNS_ADMIN, not a $TNS_NAMES. Yep, it was the SampleApp. I must confess, I did not get a chance to try out your suggestion. Trying too hard to fix the issue and making things worse by exploring every…

Server (Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.7 x64 as guest on Windows 10 host) OBIEE 12.2.1.1 Oracle Database 12.1.0.2 EE Client (windows 10 host) Oracle BI Administration Tool 12.2.1.3 As far as i can tell, the tns connect issue is only with OBIEE on Linux/weblogic. I can connect everywhere else. It would be helpful to know how…

Update: I decided to install the 12.2.1.3.0 client. That resolved the issue. I can finally proceed with the tutorial. As for the uploadrpd issue, I was using an outdated call. Apparently, data-model-cmd.cmd is no longer available in the client distribution; datamodel.cmd, however, does work, as you can see below.…

I decided to try to create a new repository from scratch in order to see if that would cause the BI Admin tool to create the missing directory paths. I followed this tutorial: http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/fmw/bi/bi1221/rpd/rpd.html#section1 At the very least, I figured I'd learn something. It…

Per ANSI SQL spec, nulls are treated differently from actual values, as the NULL "value" is technically undefined. You may be seeing an implication of that. A dimensional modeling best practice that gets to the heart of this is to make every Fact reference to a Dimension be NOT NULL; Dimension Attributes should be NOT NULL…