What is Index Awareness?
The first topic that I covered in my “Tales From a Universe Ninja” presentation at the 2007 Insight Americas conference was Index Awareness. I have to admit, this would probably not have been my first choice for a topic. I covered it on request from a member of the Universe Designer product team. As I went through this feature I found that much of what I remembered was still true even in XI R2. But I also found that in the right environment this feature could really help.
If you have downloaded a copy of my presentation then I am going to cover slides 10 through 16 in this blog post. Future blog posts will cover the rest of the material from the presentation. I believe that this feature was introduced in version 6.5 which means you must be at least at that version to be able to consider using it.
This feature is defined in the Universe Designer help file as follows:
Object keys allow Universe Designer to generate more efficient SQL by filtering on primary key values and eliminating unnecessary joins.
That’s great, but what does it mean?
Continue reading “Index Awareness Part I: The Basics”
I arrived home in Dallas from the conference late last night and now can start trying to catch up on all of the work that accrued while I was gone. I should be ready to start blogging again in a few days.
I did mention at the conference that I was going to post my presentations here on my blog, and I certainly plan to do that. My original plan had been to include each presentation in a post and then open those posts up for comments or questions. In reviewing that idea I am now thinking of taking a different approach, and I would appreciate any feedback on what might work better.
Continue reading “Back From Orlando”
I finally finished and submitted my presentations (part I and II) this weekend. It is always interesting to me to see how things evolve during the creative process compared to the abstracts, or even compared to my initial ideas. This year I am really happy with the way my presentations turned out; they are going through the review process now. Of course they were due a few weeks ago… 😳
Continue reading “Enter The Ninja”
In earlier post I wrote about being selected as a speaker for the conference again this year. As I generally do I submitted about a half dozen ideas, of which two were accepted. As it turns out, there was an ulterior motive in place. I didn’t get two abstracts selected, but something different altogether.
Continue reading “The Orlando Experiment: Two Part Presentations”
2007 Business Objects Insight Conference
Yesterday I got acceptance notices for two of my abstracts for the Business Objects conference in Orlando. If anyone is counting (I am 😉 ) this will be the twelfth conference in a row that I have been privileged to present. This year I will be presenting one topic on Designer (more details later) and another called “Return of the Variables” which I hope will be fun.
Edited August 30
The “variables” presentation has been dropped, and instead I will be doing a two-part presentation on Designer.
