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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]