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"Oracle considers venturing into Linux", Financial Times : "Oracle is studying whether to launch its own version of the Linux operating system and has looked at buying one of the two companies currently dominating the Linux world, according to Larry Ellison, the software company’s chief executive officer. Such a move would redraw the software landscape [...]

Oracle have just made available a Statement of Direction for Oracle Business Intelligence Discoverer, which makes interesting reading if you’re wondering what’s going to happen now that Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition is out. The statement of direction starts off by saying that Discoverer will still be continued and developed as Oracle’s user-friendly ad-hoc [...]

For most data warehouses the time (date) dimension appears, or at least should appear, in every query. I can think of a few DWs where time is not always used; one example being an asset (infrastructure) maintenance reporting system for a utility company, each pipe, inspection chamber, valve, or whatever of a water company is [...]

A couple of days ago I looked at using the Transportable Modules feature in OWB "Paris" so that I could quickly replicate source data into a data warehouse. Transportable Modules use either transportable tablespaces, or data pump, to bulk move data from a remote source database into the warehouse’s staging area. This is one way [...]

Earlier this week, I represented our global BI group in a review of a whitepaper on enterprise portals being written by another division in our company. The paper covered real-time reporting of operational performance, which of course is very similar to some of our BI work. My review was needed that to ensure that the [...]