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It was actually published last August, but Oracle have made available an document entitled "OFA/OSA to EPB Migration Roadmap" which sets out the migration path for Oracle Financial Analyzer and Oracle Sales Analyzer customers to the forthcoming Enterprise Planning & Budgeting. In additon, if you’re thinking about implementing EPB, you’ll probably be interested in Marianne [...]

"So you’ve deployed your first dimensional data mart. Fortunately, the business loves it and is clamoring for more! They want to query and analyze integrated data from additional enterprise data sources. For some of you, this demand is a dream come true. For others, it may be the start of a slow-motion nightmare." writes Joy [...]

"One of the latest trends is for systems to have more and more CPUs inside a single server. Using symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) servers, it is not uncommon for an Oracle server to have 8, 16, or 32 CPUs, along with many gigabytes of RAM for the Oracle SGA regions." writes Don Burleson in an article [...]

"Oracle has introduced significant management automation features in its flagship database product and has described the new Oracle Database 10g release as "the self-managing database." Given that achievement and direction, I thought it would make sense to talk about how to write one’s PL/SQL application so that it is also self-managing." writes Steven Feuerstein in [...]

I’ve been working away on client sites over the last few weeks, and because of this I’ve not really had any spare time for writing articles or answering questions. Apologies if you’ve sent me a question and you’ve not heard back, and hopefully I should be able to spend a bit more time on the [...]