We have 2 repositories, TEST and LIVE, with the usual 3 domains in each.
However, I read that having 2 repositories may not be the way to go with BusinessObjects, and indeed we had some problems with keeping track of which universe is up to date on which environment :crazy_face: .
Now, if we do go with the one repository, how do we handle development ? I want to know your experiences/implementations. I mean, when developing reports, do you create a group and post all development reports to it ? if they are named in the same way, wouldn't they overwrite the 'production' reports held in other groups ? so then do you have give the reports another title ?.
What do you think is an ideal repository set up :? ?. Here is our setup information :
BO : 6.5.1
WebI : 6
Webserver : IIS
Repository DB : MS SQL Server
Warehouse DB : MS SQL Server
O/S : 2003
Your advice/opinion is appreciated, thanks in advance.
Thanks for that, I have now created a new development document database (to be used as a development document domain) and a new universe database (to be used as a development universe domain) and will use them in the single repository going forward, so now we will hopefully have :
…being on MS SQL Server, I managed to have the dba’s make a copy of (and rename) our future development document and universe domains (on the same server) and tried to add them using the Supervisor module.
I created the ODBC drivers for these new domains on the server, and so when trying to add them in Supervisor I get the message “A repoistory domain of that type already exists for the connection. Please change the type or set up a new connection”
I looked in BOB for this, found various posts, but they all derail into something else without seemingly solving the issue. I don’t understand where it’s going wrong so in a nutshell this is what’s happening…
I’ve got 2 new MS SQL Server ‘databases’ that are copies of existing document and universe domains (they have different names of course, to reflect development), I create the ODBC connection to them, trying to add them using the Supervisor, and get the message mentioned above about connection already existing. Any suggestions ?. Please help !!
Your post was difficult to understand, I could not figure out what is your issue?
The queries coming to my mind are:
which are your existing domains you are referring to, Are these you already stated in your 2nd post?
Do you want to add connections to domains you made ?
Please explain in brief, what you have right now on each of the databases ? Which domain where, DB1 or DB2 etc. To get the correct repsonse to your issue.
That is not the best practice to create Universe and Document Domains. Because when you create these domains, It will create a set of tables and indexes on those tables.
It looks to me like you might have missed something while copying those tables!!
The best way to create is:
option 1) Supervisor --> Tools --> Repository --> Click Add --> Select Universe or Document domain --> follow the wizard by providing username/password…etc.
option 2) you must use complete SQL for creating tables and indexes for respective domains.
That will create the domains, After that, re-create the bomain.key with ‘Safe recovery option’.
Thanks for that, I figured out what the problem was.
The user I was using to create the domains did not have the database priveliges to create tables etc, as soon as I used a database user with the right profile the tables were created, and the new domains are now up and running !.
so in a nutshell this is what’s happening…
!!
(BOB member since 2004-06-06)