Sunday, July 27th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
The Business Intelligence software market shake-up continues: Hyperion are looking to buy Brio. Significantly, this will give Hyperion a presence in the relational reporting market, whilst giving Brio a bit of breathing space after their ill-conceived purchase of Sqribe Technologies in 1999.
So what now for Cognos and Microstrategy. According to sources on comp.databases.olap, Microstrategy is [...]
Sunday, July 27th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
I’m off on the last of my OCP courses next week, over at Oracle Eastpoint in Dublin. There won’t be much time for blogging during the week, as I plan to spend every spare moment studying so that I can take the exam a week later. It’s also the first time i’ll be using the [...]
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003 by Mark Rittman
The next version of Oracle will be called Oracle 10G, with the ‘G’ standing for Grid Computing.
Oracle 10G is due to be formally launched at Oracleworld in September, but details of the new name leaked out recently when the Oracleworld Paris site was made public.Further details of other new features are only rumours at this stage, [...]
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2003 by Mark Rittman
If you’re using Oracle Reports delivered as either a JSP or through the Reports Servlet, and you’re getting the error “REP-56055: Exceed max connections allowed: 20″, you need to increase the maxConnect value in the reports configuration file to a higher value.
Find the file $ORACLE_HOME/reports/conf/repservername.conf
where $ORACLE_HOME is your applications (not infrastructure) home, and repservername is [...]
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2003 by Mark Rittman
There’s a free offer currently on at OTN’s Linux Technology Centre where you can download a full, developer copy of United Linux for free.
United Linux is a joint effort between SuSE, Connectiva, SCO Group (boo!) and TurboLinux, where each company produces a version of Linux, for the enterprise, that is interoperable and appears the same [...]
