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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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