Average for a week

Sunday, January 8th, 2006 by Peter Scott

In most data warehouses there is some form of aggregation going on, sometimes in the presentation of database summary tables, sometimes in the query tool. Often this aggregation is additive over time: how many times did this IP address connect to that web page in a month, what is the total value of baked bean [...]

VMWare Player Prebuilt Virtual Machines

Friday, January 6th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

Spotted via Duncan Lamb‘s site: the "Community Virtual Machines" page on the VMWare website, where you can download prebuilt virtual machines for use with VMWare and the new (free) VMWare Player, including: Debian Sarge 3.1 Fedora Core 4 Fedora Core 5 Test 1 FreeBSD 6.0 KDE on SuSE OSS 10.0 Kubuntu (KDE on Ubuntu) Of [...]

Oracle Reporting Tools Forum Up and Running

Thursday, January 5th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

The Blog Forum is up and running now over at http://www.rittman.net/forum. I set this up for two reasons. First is that I get a number of technical questions through directly, and I often don’t have the time (or the answer to hand) to be able to help out straight away. If you post to the [...]

RSS Feeds Now Validating

Wednesday, January 4th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

Someone dropped me a line earlier this evening to say that my RSS and Atom feeds weren’t validating correctly. I’m not sure if this is following my site upgrade or if they ever validated before, it looks like from this article Moveable Type has a history of generating invalid RSS feeds. Luckily the same article [...]

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