Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

On a follow-up to my last post Beth wrote: It's been my experience that clients appreciate honest (yet tactful) discussions with the techies when making their decisions. She is absolutely right. I can remember at least two occasions where customers specifically asked to have me on a project because of my honesty.
The first time was […]

Well that’s it for me now at Collaborate’06. We did our last presentation
yesterday and afterwards, I went along to the IOUG closing debate, on commercial
Unix vs. Linux. As you would have expected, the argument came down to
commoditisation of hardware and software, and the cost benefits accruing from
this, vs. the tried and tested, safe route of […]

It’s been a busy couple of days at Collaborate, hence the lack of updates
since Monday. We’ve been giving presentations over the last couple of days, and
coupled with trying to attend a few of the sessions, there’s been little time
for blogging.
Most of the evenings have been taken up with events and meals. On Monday
night, I met […]

First of all, just to repeat : If you were looking to come along to my
Best Practices for the OLAP Option to Oracle Database 10g talk on Wednesday,
it’s been moved now to Tuesday, 4.45pm in Cheekwood C. It should be in
the agenda changes leaflet in the morning, but if not, now you know.
Anyway, I […]

If you’re at Collaborate’06 and were looking to come along to my Best Practices for the OLAP Option
to Oracle Database 10g talk on Wednesday, it’s been moved now to Tuesday,
4.45pm in Cheekwood C. It should be in the agenda changes leaflet in the
morning, but if not, now you know.
We’d worked out on the previous schedule […]

Yesterday was the first day proper for Collaborate’06 with some all-day
education sessions going on over at the main conference venue. I was hoping to
pop into Don Burleson’s Predictive Modelling session but I couldn’t get in in
the end, so I took the opportunity to spend the rest of the day finishing off my
second ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2006 […]

I’ve arrived at the Collaborate’06
hotel now and it’s about a quarter to seven in the morning. I flew in to
Nashville around 4 o’clock yesterday and got down to the venue, about an hour
later. You can tell I was from the UK as I was the only person wearing a coat
and sweater (it’s about 80º here […]

Over on Doug Burn’s blog there is a link to an interesting piece on large disks. Some people would think that the data warehousing community would welcome large disks. But probably for the majority (those of us that use conventional relational databases) this is not the case. An exception may be for those people that […]

I’m going to be presenting next week at the
Collaborate’06 event in Nashville,
Tennessee. Collaborate’06 is a joint conference between the IOUG, OAUG and Quest
Direct and is being held at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel, Nashville, from April
23rd through to April 27th.

The first presentation I’ll be giving will be with one of our
partners, QDecisions, on a new product […]

The last DW post talked about dates and times within a data warehouse. The time that a sale or some other transaction occurs can usually be recorded by an Oracle DATE value in the data warehouse; some DW may need to use timestamps, but to-the-second times would normally be adequate.
Transactional fact data tends to be […]