Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]