Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Jon Mead and I are co-presenting two slots at the upcoming UKOUG Conference and Exhibition, which runs from 8th - 10th December at the ICC, Birmingham.
The first presentation is entitled “Oracle 9i OLAP Uncovered”, and we’ve put together the first draft of the white paper and presentation for revue. Take a look and let us […]

The Analytic Workspace Manager can now be downloaded from OTN at http://otn.oracle.com/software/htdocs/devlic.html? http://download.oracle.com/otn/java/olap/awm920.zip. It’s 217MB and i’ve got it downloading now…
It requires the 9.2.0.4.1 patch which can be downloaded from Metalink, using patch number 3084634
To apply the 9.2.0.4.1 patch, you also need to have installed the 9.2.0.4 database patch beforehand, which can be downloaded from […]

Bloor Research on new Oracle 10g data warehousing features: “It should be clear that this is a feature-rich and significant release.”

From VNUNet.com: ”Oracle will not announce its pricing strategy for its 10g Database and Application Server products until they ship, but indicators suggest the firm will offer a menu of options.”

Whilst we’re on the subject of security, there’s a couple of useful papers available on OTN that detail how security on 9iAS works.
First up is a detailed technical paper giving best practises for security for Oracle 9iAS 1.0.2.x, which is worth taking a look through if you’re supporting this first release of 9iAS.
For 9iAS 9.0.2, there’s […]

“We are trying to decide which reporting tool to use. What are some of the differences between Oracle Reports and Discoverer?”

“We are trying to decide which reporting tool to use. What are some of the differences between Oracle Reports and Discoverer?”

Oracle don’t release specifics about forthcoming product releases until just before the product gets launched, but if you take a look through the OTN OWB Forum there’s a few clues emerging about what’s coming up in the next major release of OWB, codenamed ‘Paris’ and due in Q2 2004. From what I understand, this is […]

I’ve just come across Pete Finnigan’s website, where’s he’s put together an excellent set of links through to Oracle security papers written by himself and other third parties. One particularly interesting paper is on Detecting SQL Injection In Oracle, a bit of a ‘hot topic’ these days summed as;

“SQL Injection is a way to attack […]

Red Hat 9.0 looks like being the last release of this Linux distro, with Red Hat the company concentrating on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and the consumer distro being merged with the Fedora Project.
According to the Fedora Project website;
“The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project. It is also a proving ground […]