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Once the domain of a small group of knowledge workers within an organization, data warehouses are increasingly becoming a critical part of an overall  I.T. infrastructure. Organizations have come to depend on the information held in data warehouses and data marts, and often the warehouse is the only source of information within an organization that [...]

Apart from the announcement that a future version of Discoverer will fully support Oracle OLAP multidimensional queries, the most important new business intelligence feature of Oracle 10G is the ‘SQL Model Clause’. Outlined in Tom Kyte’s recent white paper at Oracleworld, the SQL Model clause allows users to embed ‘spreadsheet-like’ models in a SELECT statement, [...]

One of the most interesting new features of Oracle Database 10g is the new ‘self-managing’ framework outlined in this white paper by Sushil Kumar, available on the Oracleworld site. Automatic maintenance and tuning has always been one of the key product differentiators for Microsoft SQL Server and with Oracle 10g, features that meet and match [...]

Keen to run Oracle on Red Hat 9 but having problems with libraries and kernel parameters? This article over at ITToolbox gives you step-by-step instructions on installing Oracle 9i Release 2 on Red Hat 9, including the installation of the backward-compatability and software development packages required to get the installation up and running first-time.

Bud Endress has written an excellent paper on Oracle 10g OLAP new features which is currently available for download from the Oracleworld website. Some of the new features for the 10g OLAP option look pretty exciting, and the benefits of integration with the traditional relational Oracle engine are starting to become apparent. First up is [...]