Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

I mentioned yesterday that I’m off to Ireland tomorrow, and the work I’m going to be doing for most of the week is a presales engagement for a public-sector organisation. It’s probably true to say that presales is probably the sort of work that I get the most enjoyment out of; you typically have to [...]

A quick update as I’m off to Ireland on Sunday. I’ve had a couple of papers accepted for Collaborate’06, the joint event being run by the IOUG, OAUG and Quest International. The event is being held over in Nashville, Tennessee during April this year and I’m doing a couple of presentations that are being sponsored [...]

Time to catch up on a few articles and bits of news. "Closer ties between the two firms will benefit their users, but only rivals would gain from a merger" argues Martin Banks in "Why Oracle would be mad to buy Sun". "The speculation follows a recent bout of serious "cuddling up" between Oracle chief [...]

I’ve got an interesting dilemma with a piece of consulting I’m doing this week. We’re working with charity up in London who wants to add some Discoverer reporting to their OLTP application. They’d got licences for Discoverer but never got around to deploying it, and so our task was to do a few days of [...]

One of our customers has a possible problem with a data discrepancy. Two queries that should return the same results don’t. We should get copies of the queries early next week so we can tear the two apart. We need to analyse whether the results should be the same. And if they should be the [...]