Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Yesterday my thoughts returned to the topic of time, not in the Stephen Hawkin sense but the more prosaic "Data Warehouse" sense. Three questions popped up, and although I hold firm views about the answers I think there are others out there with the opposite view and indeed a lot with the 'it depends' view. [...]

If you were following the replies to the Column-based Databases, Sybase IQ and SAND Technologies thread last week, here’s another concept that’ll get your head spinning : Temporal Databases. I’ve been following this idea since a couple of weeks ago, when Doug Burns reported on a presentation Oracle’s Rob Squire gave on the subject (slides [...]

If you were following the replies to the Column-based Databases, Sybase IQ and SAND Technologies thread last week, here’s another concept that’ll get your head spinning : Temporal Databases. I’ve been following this idea since a couple of weeks ago, when Doug Burns reported on a presentation Oracle’s Rob Squire gave on the subject (slides [...]

I’ve booked the restaurant now for the UKOUG bloggers’ dinner on the 31st October 2005, during the conference. We’re going to Tin Tin’s Chinese Restaurant, in the Brindleyplace development just over from the ICC, and so far there’s sixteen of us going. The list of attendees so far is myself, Niall Litchfield, Pete Finnigan, Doug [...]

Doug Burns has just published a new paper about CASE expressions, which replaces an earlier paper he wrote on DECODE. If you’ve read Doug’s parallel query paper this one is of the same high quality, if you use DECODE for any ETL, calculations or so forth I’d thoroughly recommend popping over to Doug’s site and [...]