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Eddie Awad asks: How come no one has mentioned "testing"?! A very important part of developing an application (any application) is to test it again and again until the tests produce the desired results.
Of course Eddie is right, but sadly, like good design, adequate testing often takes a backseat role to getting the job done. […]

An anonymous poster to Tom Kyte’s Blog shared a tale of woe about data warehouse performance. Well, I felt for that poster – how can a developer put their hand on their heart (or wallet, if they are an external consultant) and say in effect “design does not matter, the database will be able […]

Oracle to
Support IBM WebSphere with Project Fusion Apps: "A week ago, as IBMers in
the iSeries Division were preparing, like myself, to head down to Orlando, Fla.,
for the COMMON iSeries user group meeting, other IBMers from Software Group were
heading out to Silicon Valley to do a legal dance in advance of the OracleWorld
user group meeting for […]

Earlier this year I was asked to take a look at
how we
might use 10046 trace files to help carry out OWB performance tuning, the
idea being that by automatically generating trace files, we could identify why
certain mappings and

process flows were taking too long to run. A reader was
interested in the technique at the time and tried […]

If you followed the debate around Mogens N rgaard’s
"Is Oracle a Legacy
Technology" article earlier this year, you might be interested in a
presentation that Oracle’s Juan Loaiza gave at Open World last week entitled

"The Future of Databases & IT" (username and password
here).
Loaiza’s argument is that whilst developers may say that databases and IT are
"good […]

Now that I’m back from Open World it’s time to start doing all the work to
prepare for the UKOUG Conference at
the end of October. I’m doing a presentation on
Oracle
10gR2 OLAP and Discoverer, plus there’s all the company presentations and
demos to put together, so there’s quite a lot of demo building and paper writing
to do over […]

It was the final day of Open World today, and in actual fact it was probably
the most productive (for me at least) in terms of BI & data warehousing content.
I’ll start off with one presentation that I missed, George Lumpkin’s "Data
Warehouse Architectures" - you can download the presentation

here, username/password is
here.
I was particularly interested in this […]

Well my bags are packed, and I’m off to SFO shortly to fly back to London.
It’s certainly been a memorable Open World for me, not so much in terms of new
products or things learnt, more to do with the people I’ve met whilst over here.
Here’s a look back at what the highlights were for me.

Getting […]

It was the final day of Open World today, and in actual fact it was probably
the most productive (for me at least) in terms of BI & data warehousing content.
I’ll start off with one presentation that I missed, George Lumpkin’s "Data
Warehouse Architectures" - you can download the presentation

here, username/password is
here.
I was particularly interested in this […]

For anyone who’s not at Open World (must be a few people, even if there are
35,000 here) I thought I’d put a list of all the BI & Data Warehousing
presentations that you can download. When you get prompted for user credentials,
use username/password cboracle/oraclec6.

Scalable Data Warehousing on Dell and EMC 

Oracle Real Application Clusters for Data Warehousing: […]