Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve recently been putting together an article for Oracle Magazine on the new DML Error Logging feature in Oracle 10gR2, which allows you to add a LOG ERRORS clause to most DML statements so that rows that would otherwise cause the statement to fail are instead copied to an error logging table. A typical use [...]