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Oracle in talks to buy Siebel : "Oracle is in talks to buy Siebel Systems for a price tag that could reach $5 Billion The Daily Deal reports. The high-level discussions between the two companies have been confirmed by insiders and industry analysts, but are preliminary and could still break down, according to the news [...]

I’ve been playing around with one of the OWB "Paris" betas, and one of the things that most struck me about this version of OWB compared to previous ones is the degree to which it utilizes the OLAP Option. Current and  previous versions of OWB primarily created relational data warehouses, with the addition of CREATE [...]

One or two of you might be wondering how I’ve managed to find the time to write so many articles recently, and the answer to this is down to something you might have read about a few weeks ago where our local train service is trialling wireless broadband internet access on the Brighton to London [...]

To schedule an OWB mapping or process flow to run at a set time, and optionally to run again after a set interval, without having to deploy it to OEM: First, log on as the Runtime Repository owner, and run the following script to create a function called RUN_OWB_JOB. This is a slightly modified version [...]

If you’re looking to tune an SQL statement or a batch job, a common way to find out what happened during the execution of the SQL is to run an extended SQL trace and examine the wait events. But what happens if you are using parallel execution, and all your trace file contains is the [...]