Monday, December 19th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
Well
that’s probably it from me for 2005, as I’ve just got a couple of days on-site
with a customer and then I’m off until after the break (although Nick Goodman and I are talking about doing a “Review of 2005″ Podcast. so watch this space…)
Until then, have a Merry Christmas and a safe New Year, here’s [...]
Thursday, December 15th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
We’ve just finalised the agenda for the
January 31st UKOUG Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools SIG and if I say
so myself, I think it’s about the best one we’ve ever put together. We’ve
managed to get Oracle’s Kevin "Mr. OLAP" Lancaster to do two presentations on
OLAP tips and techniques, together with "from the trenches" presentations by
Jeff Moss, [...]
Monday, December 12th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
I came across a couple of interesting articles over the weekend that some of
you might be interested in.
If you got the chance to listen to Chris Webb and Nigel Pendse’s podcast last
week, on
the effect that SQL Server 2005 will have on the BI market, you’ll probably
be interested in an article Nigel has just published on [...]
Friday, December 9th, 2005 by Peter Scott
In a recent Oraclesponge posting David Aldridge writes about a way to get around the “ORA-12034: materialized view log younger than last refresh” error. Of course his method relies on you knowing what it is about the MV that needs to be fixed to get it back into to sync with its source tables (or [...]
Wednesday, December 7th, 2005 by Mark Rittman
For this last posting on XML Publisher I thought I’d take a look at how
reports are deployed into production. The approach I’ve used so far – build a
report template using the XML Publisher Desktop product, then preview it as a
PDF – is obviously the way that you’d develop and test reports, rather than roll
them out, [...]
