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Ralph Kimball, "The 38 Subsystems Of ETL" : "The extract-transform-load (ETL) system, or more informally, the "back room," is often estimated to consume 70 percent of the time and effort of building a data warehouse. But there hasn’t been enough careful thinking about just why the ETL system is so complex and resource intensive. Everyone [...]

I’m conscious that I haven’t updated the weblog much over the last few weeks so I thought it worth posting a note of explanation. Funnily enough I have actually still been working away on articles and presentations over the last couple of weeks, but they’re all for other sites or publications and consequently won’t be [...]

I was working with one of our customers last week who was looking at implementing the new OracleBI Discoverer 10g, otherwise known as “Drake”. The customer already used Oracle Discoverer Desktop 3i and had previously looked at upgrading to Oracle Application Server 9i Discoverer Plus, but had chosen not to upgrade to this version due [...]

I was working with one of our customers last week who was looking at implementing the new OracleBI Discoverer 10g, otherwise known as "Drake". The customer already used Oracle Discoverer Desktop 3i and had previously looked at upgrading to Oracle Application Server 9i Discoverer Plus, but had chosen not to upgrade to this version due [...]

If you’ve got experience with Oracle’s BI&W tools and you’re looking to work on some of the best and most interesting projects in the UK and Ireland, you might be interested to know that SolStonePlus is now hiring. Right now there are openings for people with Oracle Warehouse Builder, Oracle Discoverer and Oracle Application Server [...]