Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Working for an IT services company I tend to get quite a bit of variety in the work that passes my way. Although (for me) it is always data warehouses, the works ranges from completely new systems, through data warehouse migrations, enhancements, to steady-state maintenance and performance tuning. This week my team started work on [...]

Michael Armstrong-Smith, author of the forthcoming Oracle Discoverer 10g book and a regular OTN Discoverer Forum contributor, recently posted the slides and white paper from his IOUG Live! 2005 session on the learndiscoverer.com website. One interesting concept that Michael has come up with for these presentations is that of a "Discoverer Library". Michael explained how [...]

Oracle works quietly with Mozilla : "Oracle and the Mozilla Foundation are keeping a joint venture under wraps, leading to speculation that the database giant may by planning to release an open-source product. The Mozilla Foundation revealed in February at the Free and Open Source Developers’ European Meeting (FOSDEM) that the database giant had hired [...]

The customer is not always right : "First, though, I’m posting the longest comic I’ve ever drawn – practically a graphic novel by my own standards – illustrating why the customer is not always right. This is an old adage which I think goes back to a time when it was your job to let [...]

"I have a question about drilling from an OracleBI Discoverer for OLAP 10.1.2 worksheet to a Discoverer Plus Relational worksheet. When you pass values from an OLAP worksheet you pass either the dimension name or the dimension value to the associated parameter in the relational worksheet. Obviously, in OLAP this dimension is treated as an [...]