Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]