OWB10g Online Training Resources

Tuesday, November 30th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

I recently came across some free online training on OWB that anyone looking
to get into the product, or bring their product knowledge up to date, might find useful. The training homepage is at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/warehouse/selfserv_edu/self_service_education.html
and breaks the training into a number of sections.
The first section, Getting Started, provide a product
overview, installation
instructions and a look at the […]

Understanding The Role Of The OLAP Catalog

Monday, November 29th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

“What is the definition and purpose of an olap catalog? how can I create one? what do I add to it? and how do I add things to it? I am using Oracle 10g with JDeveloper 9.0.4 and BI Beans 9.0.4″
The OLAP Catalog is a set of metadata that […]

Understanding The Role Of The OLAP Catalog

Monday, November 29th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

"What is the definition and purpose of an olap catalog? how can I create
one? what do I add to it? and how do I add things to it? I am using Oracle 10g
with JDeveloper 9.0.4 and BI Beans 9.0.4"

The OLAP Catalog is a set of metadata that sits between Java applications
that […]

Feedback On Recent Articles

Sunday, November 28th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

Over the last couple of weeks I posted a couple of articles that generated a
lot of feedback, so much so that I thought it worth posting an update article
summarising some of the comments I received. The articles were on subjects that
tend to pretty much divide the Oracle community so it was no surprise that
opinions were […]

A Look At The Latest Oracle Books

Sunday, November 28th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

A selection of books that I’ve been looking at recently.

I
mentioned the other week
that I had recently ordered Richmond Shree’s and Kirtikumar Deshpande’s

"Oracle Wait Interface : A Practical Guide To Performance Diagnosis & Tuning"
to get more of a detailed understanding of the Oracle Wait Interface following a
tuning exercise. This book really needs to be read in […]

Under The Covers With Enterprise Planning & Budgeting

Saturday, November 27th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

If you’ve been looking at the available material and presentations on Enterprise Planning & Budgeting, you’ve probably got a good idea now of the capabilities of this new product. What isn’t so immediately obvious though is how EPB works, and therefore these notes explain the background to EPB’s architecture, how the data is stored and […]

Under The Covers With Enterprise Planning & Budgeting

Saturday, November 27th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

If you’ve been looking at the available material and presentations on Enterprise Planning & Budgeting, you’ve probably got a good idea now of the capabilities of this new product. What isn’t so immediately obvious though is how EPB works, and therefore these notes explain the background to EPB’s architecture, how the data is stored and […]

Under The Covers With Enterprise Planning & Budgeting

Saturday, November 27th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

If you’ve been looking at the available
material and presentations on Enterprise
Planning & Budgeting, you’ve probably got a good idea now of the
capabilities of this new product. What isn’t so immediately obvious though is
how EPB works, and therefore these notes explain the background to EPB’s
architecture, how the data is stored and how EPB differs from Oracle […]

Under The Covers With Enterprise Planning & Budgeting

Saturday, November 27th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

If you’ve been looking at the available
material and presentations on Enterprise
Planning & Budgeting, you’ve probably got a good idea now of the
capabilities of this new product. What isn’t so immediately obvious though is
how EPB works, and therefore these notes explain the background to EPB’s
architecture, how the data is stored and how EPB differs from Oracle […]

The History Of Oracle Discoverer’s OLAP Support

Friday, November 26th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

“Hi, Mark,
You paper ‘Oracle 9i OLAP Uncovered’ inspired me to explore more on this exciting subject. First let me confirm with you that Discoverer’s own OLAP feature is implemented based on (or using) 9i/10g ROLAP. Is it true? Regardless of your answer to my first […]