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If anyone’s interested, Peter Odds and I have set up an Oracle OLAP mailing list as an additional resource for developers working with the OLAP Option. The list homepage is at http://www.rittman.net/lists/olap where you can subscribe, change subscription options or view the list archives. With a bit of luck it’ll be an additional way for [...]

Julian Ford passed on a link to an article by Michael J. Radwin on Buildng Data Warehouses With mySQL. The article refers to a presentation by John Ashenfelter who’s also written a book on mySQL and data warehousing which is due out in July 2004. Data warehousing using mySQL on one hand sounds counter-intuitive but [...]

There’s a good article currently running over at Oracle-base.com detailing the performance tuning enhancements in Oracle Database 10g. It’s a fairly detailed document and covers the following areas; Automatic Performance Diagnostic and Tuning Features Automatic Shared Memory Management Wait Model Improvements Automatic Optimizer Statistics Collection Dynamic Sampling CPU Costing Optimizer Hints Rule Based Optimizer Obsolescence [...]

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Andy Todd points out a useful guide to installing Oracle Database 10g on Debian. According to the guide, "We go through, step-by-step, the process of installing Oracle 10g Release 1 (10.1.0.2) Enterprise/Standard Edition for Linux x86 on a Debian unstable installation as of 2004-04-01. This chapter was originally written by Damien McAullay with suggestions from [...]