Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

“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. [...]

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, [...]

"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 product. ur paper was [...]

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 [...]

“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 [...]