Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

I’m off to Ireland tomorrow to work with one of our public sector clients. They’re putting in a data warehouse and I’m helping out with the initial requirements definition and data model. It’s nice once in a while to do some "business analysis"-type work, nice to step away from coding and debugging and think instead [...]

Duncan Mills’ recently posted about the questions he sometimes receives from readers, and it got me thinking about the type of questions I often get sent through to me. Like Duncan, I put my email address on the front page of my blog (in case someone wants to write to me and offer me a [...]

June 17 – I was not too happy about the way this post was written – I will be revising parts of this – I will use italics to highlight changes. I must admit my view on surrogate keys in a data warehouse is far from the orthodox. For me a surrogate key on a [...]

Next week I’m off to see a client in Ireland, who’s using us to help put together the design for their data warehouse. They’re looking to use tools such as Business Objects, Discoverer and so forth, there’s a certain element of OLAP-style decision support reporting required, but the vast bulk of the reporting they’re going [...]

If you read Tom Kyte’s blog the other day you’d have seen the entry where he asks you to guess where he’s currently staying, using a photo taken out of his hotel bedroom window. Well in the same spirit, here’s one out of the office window where I’ve been working the last few days – [...]