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Lucas Jellema has put together an informative Amis Blog article on a
private session he’d
recently on Enterprise Planning & Budgeting. A lot of what’s in it I covered
in my previous "Under The
Covers With Enterprise Planning & Budgeting" article but there’s some
interesting new points that Lucas comes up with:

"The benefits an organisation will get from using EPB [...]

Lucas Jellema has put together an informative Amis Blog article on a
private session he’d
recently on Enterprise Planning & Budgeting. A lot of what’s in it I covered
in my previous "Under The
Covers With Enterprise Planning & Budgeting" article but there’s some
interesting new points that Lucas comes up with:

"The benefits an organisation will get from using EPB [...]

"Oracle and
Java Stored Procedures", Michael Klaene : "Beginning with version 8i, the
Oracle database includes a fully functional Java Virtual Machine, Oracle JVM.
Out of this close relationship between Oracle and Java emerges an important
technology for Oracle developers: Java stored procedures. With Java stored
procedures, developers have the ability to harness the power of Java when
building database applications. [...]

The other week I wrote an article on a
database tuning engagement
I’d been on, and one of the things that I looked at during the visit was a
SELECT statements that was being executed in parallel. After running the
statement with an event 10046 trace, the TKPROF output looked like this:

SELECT [list of account fields]
FROM ACCOUNTS WHERE CUSTOMERID [...]

If you came along to the Open Word Discoverer "Drake" presentations, or had a
look at the presentations and papers available for download, you’ll probably
have noticed that a major theme for Drake is the provision of BI "Dashboards".
Built using Oracle Portal and the Discoverer "Drake" Portlet Provider, these
dashboards integrate OLAP and relational reporting, display the results [...]