Sunday, November 30th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
“Text analytics provide concept discovery, automated classification, and innovative displays for volumes of unstructured documents.” writes Seth Grimes in another good IntelligentEnterprise article.
Sunday, November 30th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
Oracle security specialist Pete Finnigan, author of the ‘Detecting SQL Injections In Oracle’ article, has recently published a new paper on implementing row level security on Oracle.
According to Pete’s website, “Part one discusses the reasons to use RLS and uses a simple example to show how some simple business rules could be constructed” whilst “Part […]
Tuesday, November 25th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
“I am trying to find information about Oracle EDW, which is supposed to be a datawarehouse out of the box for Oracle applications. Only thing that pops up at Oracle is the warehouse builder FAQ and that is no help. Please send me link to any documentation.”
If you’ve got access to Metalink, there’s a section […]
Monday, November 24th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
Just came across an interesting error when plugging a new Discoverer mid-tier instance into an existing 9iAS Farm. The Discoverer server was running on Windows 2000, the server on Unix.
When I tried to create the first public connection (to check that Discoverer portlets work), I got the error message “Cannot get a list of connections. […]
Monday, November 24th, 2003 by Mark Rittman
There’s a couple of good questions just appeared on asktom.com:
The first concerns the differences between data warehouses and OLTP systems, particularly with regard to developer and DBA skills;
“How is a data warehousing database different from a regular database? I usually find that data warehousing is seen as a separate skill. Why ? What are the […]
