Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Most people who read this blog, or know me through work or through the user groups, probably place me as your stereotypical techy. I’m the one who takes a Tom Kyte book on holiday, whips out the laptop on train journeys to try out his new linux VMWare Oracle install, and has a phone with [...]

I mentioned a month or so ago that I was due to present at the Collaborate’06 event over in Nashville, Tennessee next month, and last week I finally got a confirmation through (of sorts) from the event organisers that my presentations had been accepted. I’m one of a number of customer and partner speakers that [...]

"Improving on Optimisers", Philip Howard, Bloor Research : "After all these years you would assume, wouldn’t you, that database optimisers were pretty good? Companies like IBM and Oracle have been costing query plans and re-writing SQL not just for years but for decades, so you would expect that they would know what they were doing. [...]

In yesterday’s article I took a look at the new XML Publisher 5.6 release candidate, and worked my way through the demo reports that it ships with. In today’s article I’ll start looking at the process of creating your own reports and delivering them through XML Publisher 5.6 Enterprise, and to make this all a [...]

In yesterday’s article I took a look at the new XML Publisher 5.6 release candidate, and worked my way through the demo reports that it ships with. In today’s article I’ll start looking at the process of creating your own reports and delivering them through XML Publisher 5.6 Enterprise, and to make this all a [...]