XML Publisher 5.6 Conclusions

Monday, March 20th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

I said the other week, when I wrote the first

two

articles about XML Publisher 5.6 Enterprise, that’d I’d come back in a few
days to report on how straightforward it was to put together more complicated
reports. I’ve been delayed since then by putting together the OTN article on XML
Publisher but it’s given me a good opportunity to [...]

When I Used To Be Cool

Monday, March 20th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

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 [...]

Getting Ready for Collaborate’06

Sunday, March 19th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

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 Oracle are sponsoring and the [...]

Bloor Research on ActiveKnowledge : “Improving On Optimisers”

Friday, March 17th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

"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.
Well, if that’s the case [...]

XML Publisher 5.6 Enterprise : Producing My First Reports

Thursday, March 9th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

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
bit more relevant I’ve put [...]

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