Looking Forward To Oracle 10g Release 2

Tuesday, December 14th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

One of the major announcements at Open World was for
Oracle Database 10g
Release 2. This next release of the Oracle RDBMS isn’t likely to be available
for download until the middle of 2005, but some initial details have now been
made available and it’s possible to get an idea of what’s in store for the
product.
The first thing that’s […]

New Oracle OLAP Product Directions Announced At Open World

Sunday, December 12th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

Now that I’m back from Open World, there’s a chance now to start taking a
look through all of the papers and presentations

available to download from the conference website. One of the features of
actually being at Open World is that, apart from the presentations that you go
to, there’s little time to actually take a look at […]

Day Three Of Open World - Keynotes By Rozwat, McNealy And Ellison

Thursday, December 9th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

Wednesday
is keynote day, and I
mentioned before that I watched Chuck Rozwat’s and Scott McNealy’s keynotes
from speaker room as I frantically tried to get my AWM10g / Drake demo working
again. If you’re coming along tomorrow, it’s working again now, the lesson being
that you need to revoke your OLAP schema user from the Discoverer Catalog before
you […]

First Night In San Francisco

Sunday, December 5th, 2004 by Mark Rittman

Well,
I’ve arrived in San Francisco now and got settled in to my hotel. I arrived
about 2.00pm local time after an 11 hour flight, so had a quick wander around
the area local to my hotel, got something to eat and crashed out around 6.00pm.
It’s actually 6.30am at the moment, so my internal clock is still a […]