New Features for Data Model Designers

This preface describes changes to the Oracle BI Publisher data model designer.

New Features and Changes for Oracle BI Publisher 12c (12.2.1)

New features and changes for Oracle BI Publisher 12c Release 1 (12.2.1) include:

Generate Explain Plan from SQL Data Set

For data sets generated by SQL queries issued against the Oracle Database, you can now generate an Explain Plan to provide valuable information about the efficiency of your query. For more information, see Section 9.8.1, "Generate Explain Plan."

Best Practices Information

Poorly constructed data models can result in out-of-memory exceptions. Use these best practices guidelines to help you tune your data models for more efficient memory usage. See Chapter 9, "Performance Best Practices."