Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 during the week.
The [...]

A few bookmarked articles that I’ve been meaning to clear out for a while.

A nice article from Lucas Jellema on
using
DBMS_FREQUENT_ITEMSET for PL/SQL data mining
Intelligent Enterprise with a

sneak peek to Cognos 8, which features (like Discoverer Drake)
integrated relational and OLAP reporting.
"Ever download a framework and feel overwhelmed? Maybe there is a way
around that." asks Michael Feathers [...]

One of our customers has asked us to review the performance of one of their legacy data warehouses. The daily data load takes far too long. There seems to be a lot we can suggest here to improve things – for a start, we need move to an incremental load and not the complete reload [...]

Back from the UKOUG Conference now, just thought I’d jot some final thoughts
down on the four days. Unlike Open World, I’ve actually had a job to do over the
past three days so I’ve not had much of chance to post anything except photos,
but here’s my thoughts on what I saw.
Unlike Open World, the UKOUG isn’t [...]

Today was the day for Tom Kyte’s keynote and from
reading his blog
just before the presentation, I had an inkling that a few of us last night were
in for a bit of a ribbing. Little did I know …

See also
here,
here,
here and
here. It
turns out that Tom’s keynote was due to be about the new Express edition of
Oracle [...]