Monday, February 28th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
A paper that caught my eye at the recent
OTDUG Desktop Conference was
the one by Kent Graziano on
Agile Methods
and Data Warehousing. You have to be a conference attendee to view the
presentations, but I got hold of Kent’s email address and dropped him a line and he
was kind enough to send me a review copy of the […]
Monday, February 28th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
Investigation of collecting Cost Base Optimizer statistics : "This
article looks at some of the questions and challenges you need to consider when
you are planning statistics collection for Oracle’s Cost Based Optimizer (CBO).
Many businesses require 24 by 7 operations which often put constraints on the
available timeframe and hardware resources for collecting CBO statistics. The
purpose of this […]
Saturday, February 26th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
Some more interesting interesting articles and papers.
"EII - Dead On Arrival" by Andy Hayler for
DMReview looks at the current buzz around Enterprise Information Integration
- "lightweight BI" based around the synthesis of XML feeds - and finds it comes
up lacking:
"Some people who should know better have swallowed this EII mirage
hook, line and sinker, and […]
Saturday, February 26th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
Building BI Dashboards with Oracle Database 10g, Oracle Discoverer, and
Oracle Portal : "If you’ve been
following the release of
Oracle Business Intelligence 10g or keeping an eye on
industry trends, you’re probably aware that everyone is talking about business
intelligence (BI) dashboards. BI dashboards bring together reports and graphs
from several data sources and present information to users in […]
Saturday, February 26th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
Some more interesting interesting articles and papers.
"EII - Dead On Arrival" by Andy Hayler for
DMReview looks at the current buzz around Enterprise Information Integration
- "lightweight BI" based around the synthesis of XML feeds - and finds it comes
up lacking:
"Some people who should know better have swallowed this EII mirage
hook, line and sinker, and […]
Friday, February 25th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
It’s been another busy week at work this week, so here’s a round up of some
new articles I’ve come across that I’ve not had time to do a complete write-up
on.
The OLAP Report Market Share
Analysis for 2004 has just been released, with Microsoft extending their
market leadership and Oracle slipping from 4% to 3.4% of the total […]
Thursday, February 24th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
Oracle’s Project
Fusion: Just a Leap of Faith? : "Project Fusion: It’s supposed to
glue together PeopleSoft Inc., J.D. Edwards & Co., and Oracle Corp. business
applications. It’s supposed to soothe the frazzled nerves of PeopleSoft and JDE
users who’ve been scared silly that they’ll be forced to emigrate onto Oracle
systems. It’s supposed to tie it all together with […]
Thursday, February 24th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
Eric Sink,
"The Tenets Of Transparency" : "Reminding my readers once again that I am
not a Microsoft employee, I observe that over the last year or two, the world
has seen a different posture from the developer tools groups at Microsoft.
They’ve opened up. The buzzword for this movement is
"transparency". Some folks have told me that the leadership […]
Monday, February 21st, 2005 by Mark Rittman
If you’re a user of Oracle 9i OLAP Web Agent or Express Web Agent and was
wondering whether the 9i version worked with 10g OLAP, you’ll be interested to
note that Oracle’s Aneel Shenker recently
posted a note on the OTN OLAP forum on this subject.
According to Aneel, the latest version of Oracle 9i OLAP Web Agent […]
Sunday, February 20th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
A few articles and papers I came across recently, that you might find
interesting.
First up is a number of in-depth articles written by
Howard Rogers, on some Oracle
10g features that BI&W developers might find interesting. The first article is
on materialized
views, which Howard describes as "amongst the cleverest, neatest, most
productive features Oracle has ever come up with, and […]
