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“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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]