Dave's Adventures in Business Intelligence

The Evils of Automatic Software Updates

A few months ago about half of the reporting team at my current client called me at various times over a week saying they were having problems running reports. Eventually I figured it out… they all had one thing in common: automatic Java updates. Turns out that was a Very Bad Thing™ to do. 🙂

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I have added a new option on the right sidebar menu today: Recent Comments. I have been quite pleased with the initial participation, and I do hope that my random musings will provide some education or perhaps even some entertainment along the way… and I hope that some of you (not spammers, no, stay away! 😀 ) might be inspired to leave a comment or two.

From time to time.

In any case, now if you just want to see the recent comments the last five are listed for you in reverse chronological order. Only approved comments will be on the list.

I already have a couple of blogs. Why start another one? Well, it is just so darned easy. 😀 And I believe that by having separate blogs for separate reasons it becomes easier to build an audience. So if you are here you have probably followed a link from the collective known as BOB and you’re looking for stuff related to Business Objects. If so, you’ve found the right place.

I plan to post technical tips and podcasts that are related primarily to working with universe design and building reports, as that’s where my primary interest is.

So whoever you are, and wherever you have arrived from, welcome. 😎

— Dave Rathbun