Tuesday, January 27th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
There’s a
good
article at the DW Institute about the impact
Eclipse (the open-source Java IDE) and the
Java Tools Community will have on the
custom BI applications market.
According
to the article;
"The controversy generated by the so-called Java Tools Community (JTC)
is having its impact on business intelligence. Some of the biggest movers
and shakers in the JTC its ten member […]
Tuesday, January 27th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
“Oracle Corp. is redesigning its E-Business Suite of enterprise applications to certify them for use with the company’s forthcoming Oracle 10g database and application server, which will be optimized for grid computing. In the process, sources said, Oracle will enable its E-Business applications for the first time to operate on application servers from third parties.
As […]
Monday, January 26th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
Towards the end of last year, I came across an article on OTN about table
compression, a new feature in Oracle 9i.
As the article explains, table compression in Oracle9i can significantly accelerate query performance, especially in star schemas.
“Table Compression, a feature introduced in Oracle9i Database Rel 2, can compress entire tables, table partitions, and materialized views. […]
Monday, January 26th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
"I am in the process of implementing oid and security in
datawarehosuing environemnt very similar to whatever i have read in ur
fantastic paper. i have asked and queried a few oracle gururs who come up with
answers that everything is possible with oid w/o really understanding the
shortfalls in the […]
Thursday, January 22nd, 2004 by Mark Rittman
There’s an interesting thread going on at comp.databases.oracle.misc that
compares Oracle Forms to Microsoft’s .Net. The original poster asked;
"I need to make decision on which development tool to use: Oracle
Forms or Visual Studio .Net. I am new to Oracle and hope those who have gone
the decision path could advise the pros and cons. We have Oracle […]
Monday, January 19th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
“Stick to Web services for now: That’s the new party line for BI software buyers. Recent reviews of the Java online analytic processing (JOLAP) API and XML for Analysis (XMLA) version 1.1 left many industry analysts shepherding BI tool developers away from these two standards until they fully mature, which could take two years or […]
Monday, January 19th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
There’s a good article currently featured on OTN about using Extended Trace to diagnose performance problems. Written by Cary Millsap and entitled “Diagnosing Performance Problems”, it’s worth taking a look at if you’re about to start looking at Extended Trace and the 10046 event.
Saturday, January 17th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
eWeek via
Slashdot reports that Oracle are about support Mozilla on Linux as a client
for the e-Business Suite.
According to the
article;
"Dave Dargo, vice president of Oracle’s Linux Program Office and the
Performance Engineering team within its Platform Technologies Division, told
eWEEK.com that Oracle will look to expand its 1.5-year-old Linux support
program by supporting Linux not just as a server […]
Thursday, January 15th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
Interesting article from Hyperion on JOLAP and XMLA. Hyperion of course have a foot in both camps (see this article by Seth Grimes, and my previous summary of the XMLA vs. JOLAP situation) and this article sets out their position on how the two competing APIs fit together.
According to the article;
“Hyperion views JOLAP and XMLA […]
Monday, January 12th, 2004 by Mark Rittman
“A pattern pops out when you examine the big news items from 2003: It’s mostly about putting things together. Mergers. Application integration. Grid computing. These and other trends inherently have to do with finding affinities and creating a whole that’s worth more than the sum of its parts. Here are the dozen trends we identified […]
