Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Steve Fenwick down at Yeovil College recently contacted me, and mentioned that their college portal is now running on 9ias release 2. I worked with Steve a while ago and he’s a bit of a guru on SuSE Linux, Oracle and Oracle 9iAS. I remember Steve going home each evening with a server under each [...]

The Oracle 9i Grid Cookbook is available for download on OTN. I’ve got to put some time aside to look at this; part of me thinks this is going to be the biggest thing since the internet – being able to tap in to the power of the worlds biggest supercomputers, treating processing power like [...]

Oracle Financials (and, in all probability, all other accounting packages) has the concept of adjustment periods, where corrections to transactions already posted on the general ledger can be held in a ‘holding area’ until they are properly attributed. This has the effect of creating a financial calender where you’ve got thirteen or fourteen periods in a [...]

Steve Muench picked up on my comment regarding the long awaited patch for Oracle 9i, that provides the Analytic Workspace Manager, and enables the OLAP functionality within OWB 9.2 and OWB9.0.4. Steve helpfully pointed to a patch on metalink (2761332) which looked like it might be a contender. Unfortunately, it was just the 9.2.0.3 patch [...]

According to Igor Machin, the post 9.2.0.3 patch for Oracle 9i is now due in August / September. Groan :-) The new Analytic Workspace functionality in OWB9.2 and OWB9.0.4 relies on this, as does the forthcoming Analytic Workspace Manager add-in for OEM. I’ve been waiting for this patch for around twelve months now; without this [...]