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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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% [...]