Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

It’s almost time again for the UKOUG
Conference & Exhibition, which this year is taking place a month early
and is running on the 1st - 3rd November up at the ICC in Birmingham.
There’s a number of presentations, workshops and panel sessions that’ll be of
interest to Oracle business intelligence and data warehousing users, including
the following:

Oracle
[…]

It’s almost time again for the UKOUG
Conference & Exhibition, which this year is taking place a month early
and is running on the 1st - 3rd November up at the ICC in Birmingham.
There’s a number of presentations, workshops and panel sessions that’ll be of
interest to Oracle business intelligence and data warehousing users, including
the following:

Oracle
[…]

In this month’s article for DBAZine, put
together in collaboration with fellow blogger
Justin Lokitz, I look at
GIS-Enabling Your Oracle Data
Warehouse.
"GIS" is short for Geographic Information Systems and describes the technique
of combining information and maps. Almost every database and data warehouse
contains an element of location data, be it customer addresses, location of
transactions, or geographic regions or […]

Howard Rogers dropped me a line earlier today to say that his Windows Laptop
RAC paper is available for download again.
The paper can be download from

http://www.dizwell.com/html/exotic_oracle.html, and Howard’s put a redirect
in place so requests to the previous URL still get through.

There was an interesting
question on Oracle-L the other day about system performance when CPU
utilisation goes up towards 100%:

"I’m not a hardware guy or sys admin person so forgive me if this
is a stupid question. Leaving out all other variables(such as IO), should I
expect performance to be the same in a databse […]