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It’s Monday morning at about ten to seven, and for the first time in three years at the UKOUG, I’ve actually had a good night’s sleep. My plan to go out on Sunday night and get trashed has obviously worked, so now it’s just a chance to catch up with emails and […]

It’s Monday morning at about ten to seven, and for the first time in three
years at the UKOUG, I’ve actually had a good night’s sleep. My plan to go out on
Sunday night and get trashed has obviously worked, so now it’s just a chance to
catch up with emails and update the website before getting some […]

Just a brief update after I’ve arrived up in Birmingham for the UKOUG Conference. I came up by train this time rather than drive, as the drive up from Brighton is on the one hand either really tedious - around the M25 then an hour up the M40 - or a nightmare - a hair-raising […]

Just a brief update after I’ve arrived up in Birmingham for the
UKOUG Conference. I came up by train
this time rather than drive, as the drive up from Brighton is on the one hand
either really tedious - around the M25 then an hour up the M40 - or a nightmare
- a hair-raising final couple of miles […]

Niall and Doug have done theirs, so I thought it’s about time I put my UKOUG Conference diary up on the blog. My time over the three main days of the conference will be divided between doing things around the conference (speaking, on one of the panels, chairing a couple […]

Niall and
Doug have done theirs, so I thought it’s about time I put my UKOUG
Conference diary up on the blog. My time over the three main days of the
conference will be divided between doing things around the conference (speaking,
on one of the panels, chairing a couple of talks and trying to get to one […]

Part 2 of my Oracle Database 10g OLAP Performance Tips & Techniques article is now online at DBAZine (part 1 can be found here).
In this final article I look at the process of loading and then pre-aggregating an analytic workspace, and show you how you can trace the load process and […]

Part 2 of my
Oracle Database 10g OLAP Performance Tips & Techniques article is now online
at DBAZine (part 1 can be found
here).
In this final article I look at the process of loading and then
pre-aggregating an analytic workspace, and show you how you can trace the load
process and the SQL generated by the OLAP API. The […]

After I finished at university back in the early 90’s, I worked for a few years at American Express in Brighton. If you’ve been a student in Brighton the chances are you’ve worked at Amex at some point (their European processing centre is in the centre of the city) and I worked […]

After I finished at university back in the early 90’s, I worked for a few
years at American Express in Brighton. If you’ve been a student in Brighton the
chances are you’ve worked at Amex at some point (their

European processing centre is in the centre of the city) and I worked in the
part of the organisation that […]