Using the Internet Archive Wayback Machine

Friday, March 31st, 2006 by Mark Rittman

I’ve just been having a play around with the
Internet Archive Wayback Machine,
which holds "copies of the internet" going all the way back to 1996. Using the
site, it’s possible to have a look at how sites looked several years ago, and so
I thought I’d take a trip down memory lane and
see how my site
looked over the […]

UKOUG Business Intelligence & Analytics Special Event, London, May 16th

Thursday, March 30th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

It’s been a week or so since my last blog posting, so I thought I’d better do
an update. I’ve been busy working away on the presentations and papers I’m doing
for Collaborate’06 in Nashville, and when I finally get down to some writing I
tend to enter "the zone", where I just ignore any emails or other […]

UKOUG Business Intelligence & Analytics Special Event, London, May 16th

Thursday, March 30th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

It’s been a week or so since my last blog posting, so I thought I’d better do
an update. I’ve been busy working away on the presentations and papers I’m doing
for Collaborate’06 in Nashville, and when I finally get down to some writing I
tend to enter "the zone", where I just ignore any emails or other […]

The State of the Technical Publishing Market

Thursday, March 30th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

I was just doing a bit of random web surfing when I came across two
interesting articles on the state of the tech publishing market.
"The
Eventual Death of Developer Magazines" by Eric Sink looks at how developer
magazines are becoming increasingly redundant now that we get all our technical
information from the internet. According to Eric,

"Two days ago I […]

ROW_NUMBER() rules!

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006 by Peter Scott

Despite working with DW systems for some while, the use of Oracle Analytic functions on a production system seems to have passed me by. Not because they don’t work or are slow – far from it, but because the business questions I usually get asked to look at typically can be solved with ‘more traditional’ […]

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