Comments on: Direct Query Security Options http://obiee-blog.info/answers/direct-query-security-options/ OBIEE Blog with focus on smart business intelligence - Oracle Business Intelligence tips, best practices, and advice Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:30:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Adrian Ward http://obiee-blog.info/answers/direct-query-security-options/comment-page-1/#comment-2063 Adrian Ward Tue, 07 Apr 2009 08:50:09 +0000 http://obiee-blog.info/?p=1879#comment-2063 My answer would probably have been "Why don't you trust your power users to run SQL?" or could be "Why not expose the Dataset into Excel (via ODBC) if you just want Pivot tables and Charts, and you don't trust your power users" or "Why are you relying on the Direct SQL? Can't you build the query in a normal way?" or "Why don't you expose a special Subject Area which has the dataset in?" Mind you, I do think there is a gap in the way that datsets are not manageable in Answers. Some hardened reporting specialist always harken back to the days they could get an extract from the Db (via TOAD or Biz Objects), dump into Excel and do the reporting they were comfortable with. My answer would probably have been

“Why don’t you trust your power users to run SQL?”

or could be

“Why not expose the Dataset into Excel (via ODBC) if you just want Pivot tables and Charts, and you don’t trust your power users”

or

“Why are you relying on the Direct SQL? Can’t you build the query in a normal way?”

or

“Why don’t you expose a special Subject Area which has the dataset in?”

Mind you, I do think there is a gap in the way that datsets are not manageable in Answers. Some hardened reporting specialist always harken back to the days they could get an extract from the Db (via TOAD or Biz Objects), dump into Excel and do the reporting they were comfortable with.

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