“Maximum total number of cells in Pivot Table exceeded” error

Pivot Tables are a great feature of Oracle BI. It is arguably one of the most used views when designing reports, and offers immediate hindsight on data with drilldown capabilities on both rows and columns. Such intelligence power comes with a few limitations though. Pivot Tables aren’t made to visualise large amounts of data (data dumps are best managed through normal tables or even better, direct download to Excel/flat files).