Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Time for a quick update. If you read my posting a couple of weeks ago, you’ll have seen that I’ve been working away on a few articles recently, hence the lack of updates. It’s all a bit embarrasing actually as the Oracle Magazine ACE of the Year 2005 article was recently published, and I also [...]

In a few idle moments I downloaded the CWD4ALL extension to JDeveloper – I guess it is the developer in me that wants to give modelling tools a trial and as the vendor web page mentioned words and phrases such as OLAP, multi-dimensional modelling and Oracle Analytical Workspaces. I thought I would give it a [...]

The other day I had a rant about poor (in my opinion) DW design, and in particular not using the database features to the best advantage (or at all). Sometimes, though, people use the wrong features. Database links can be a marvellous feature when used the right way (it can move data efficiently between databases, [...]

If you’re a regular reader of this blog you’ll probably have noticed that the frequency of postings has gone down a little over the last few months, part of this is due to our second child coming along, but it’s also because I’ve been working on some more in-depth articles that should surface over the [...]

I’ve been over in Ireland for the last week, and in the evenings working on a new article for OTN on data profiling using OWB “Paris”, so I’ve not had a chance to update the blog since the UKOUG conference. In the meantime though, here’s a couple of Oracle OLAP tips that I picked up [...]