Monday, May 30th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
Well that’s it for the rest of the week for me. I’m off up to Manchester for
Jonathan Lewis’ "Optimising
Oracle, Performance By Design" seminar for the next three days, and as no
doubt I’ll be back in the hotel each evening trying out some of Jonathan’s ideas
on the laptop I’m definitely leaving the blog alone for the […]
Monday, May 30th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
Another one of our clients is looking to put some hardware in place for a new
data warehousing project. The two hardware options are:
Buy a single, large Unix server (probably a HP box running HP-UX) with 8
CPUs
Buy two or more commodity "Lintel" boxes, with 2 or 4 processors,
running Red Hat Advanced Server, and use RAC to […]
Sunday, May 29th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
One of the most powerful features of the multidimensional engine behind analytic workspaces is the ability to create formulas. Formulas, or “calculated measures” as they’re referred to in AWM10g, are measures that are derived from other measures. Using AWM, you can create simple formulas that reference other measures in a cube, […]
Sunday, May 29th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
One of the most powerful features of the multidimensional engine behind
analytic workspaces is the ability to create formulas. Formulas, or "calculated
measures" as they’re referred to in AWM10g, are measures that are derived from
other measures. Using AWM, you can create simple formulas that reference other
measures in a cube, allowing you for example to create a "margin" […]
Sunday, May 29th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
"Scott Berkun, Smart People, Bad Ideas" : "Scott Berkun, former Microsoftie,
just got
slashdotted with an essay about
"Why smart people defend
bad ideas". It’s a very interesting essay. I’m not crazy about his examples,
but his portrayal of the bad-idea-defender is dead on: "Until they come face
to face with someone who is tenacious enough to dissect their logic, […]
