Tuesday, January 31st, 2006 by Mark Rittman
Today was the day for the
UKOUG Business
Intelligence & Reporting Tools SIG meeting, held up at the
Institute of
Physics, London. Most of you probably know that I chair the SIG which
involves doing the welcome bit at the start, introducing (along with Andy and
Jagdev) the various speakers and getting feedback from the attendees on what to
include in future […]
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006 by Mark Rittman
Today was the day for the
UKOUG Business
Intelligence & Reporting Tools SIG meeting, held up at the
Institute of
Physics, London. Most of you probably know that I chair the SIG which
involves doing the welcome bit at the start, introducing (along with Andy and
Jagdev) the various speakers and getting feedback from the attendees on what to
include in future […]
Sunday, January 29th, 2006 by Mark Rittman
I just got in an hour or so ago after a week spent over in Ireland. As I
mentioned the other day, I was due to do a bit of presales work with a public
sector client, and I took the opportunity to
spend the
weekend in Belfast with Janet and the kids and the rest of her family […]
Thursday, January 26th, 2006 by Peter Scott
As an organisation, my employers firmly believe in working to standards; we are ISO certified, all of the technical staff in our outsourcing group have a minimum of ITIL foundation level certification. Lots of our guys also have vendor certifications in the products they use in their day-to-day working lives (OK, we also make sure […]
Tuesday, January 24th, 2006 by Peter Scott
Recently we implemented some changes on a customer’s DW to improve query performance. As usual, all changes were fully tested before implementation on the production system, but because of the nature of the changes and the fact that it is difficult to adequately emulate user workload we also adopted a period of intensive review […]
