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 […]
Monday, July 21st, 2003 by Mark Rittman
“What are the advantages of star schemas over other design patterns? From a performance point of view, why are star schemas is better than snowflakes?” asks a recent poster on OTN.
Star vs. Snowflake schema is a classic question asked when putting together a dimensional datawarehouse. Basically, snowflaking is the process of removing low cardinality attributes […]
Monday, July 21st, 2003 by Mark Rittman
There’s a thread going on at OTN about JDeveloper 9.0.5 and when will it be available. It’s mostly the usual ‘we’ve been waiting for it for some time now and can you give us a release date’ but one particular area of discussion is the issue with using UIX (User Interface in XML) as a […]
Monday, July 21st, 2003 by Mark Rittman
Oracle have made available a free online training course on Oracle 9iAS release 2. Called ‘Oracle 9iAS 9.0.2 By Example‘, it takes you through setting up the 9iAS server, deploying J2EE applications, building and deploying wireless applications, and, most importantly, using the business intelligence features of 9iAS.
The business intelligence part of the course takes you […]
Monday, July 21st, 2003 by Mark Rittman
Business Objects has agreed to buy Crystal Decisions in a deal valued at $820 million.
Crystal Decisions were on the verge of an IPO and their revenue grew by a third last year to $270m, while revenues at at Business Objects increased 9 per cent last year, to $455m. Their decision to sell to Business Objects has […]
Monday, July 21st, 2003 by Mark Rittman
I had a pleasant suprise this morning when I received an email from Guy Mortenson, who I used to work with at Plus for a while. Guy’s since gone on to bigger and better things, working as a Solutions Engineer at egg.com, and in his spare time he’s the chair for the UKOUG Development Engineering […]
