Monday, April 24th, 2006 by Mark Rittman
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 [...]
Sunday, April 23rd, 2006 by Mark Rittman
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 [...]
Saturday, April 22nd, 2006 by Peter Scott
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 [...]
Thursday, April 20th, 2006 by Mark Rittman
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 [...]
Monday, April 17th, 2006 by Peter Scott
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 [...]
