Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 of
LOG ERRORS is [...]

Last week I posted on a JDeveloper extension for DW modelling tool and promised an update when I managed to get it to work.
Well the guys at the IKAN have been very helpful and let me download the documentation for the Windows client version of the tool – the JDeveloper version is similar but as [...]

I’ve continued looking at the Desktop element of XML Publisher today, and
I’ve been thinking about how we get data into XML Publisher. The emphasis is on
getting data from XML documents, which obviously reflects the products’ heritage
- XML Publisher was originally the new reporting element of Oracle Applications,
and it’s also been used in products such as [...]

I’ve put my name forward for doing an XML Publisher presentation at the next BIRT SIG, and as I’ve finished the articles I was writing I’ve got a chance now to start playing around with the product. Over the next few days I’ll be posting updates on how I get on with [...]

If you’ve got a spare twenty-five minutes, Chris Webb has an interesting podcast featuring Nigel Pendse up on his website at the moment. Chris is a kind of alternate version of me who focuses on Microsoft’s OLAP Products (a younger, more successful version probably) and he’s been blogging recently about the [...]