Monday, May 29th, 2006 by Mark Rittman
According to Oracle’s Mary Ann Davidson, the British are particularly good
at hacking (Oracle software, presumably) because we have
"the perfect temperament to be hackers–technically skilled, slightly
disrespectful of authority, and just a touch of criminal behavior."
That’s nice then. You’ll all have to watch your wallets when I come over to
ODTUG next month.
Sunday, May 28th, 2006 by Mark Rittman
I
joked the other day that I was so pleased that Arsenal lost the Champions
League final to Barcelona, I was going to order one of the those
new Macbooks – well I
actually did it in the end (there’s schadenfreude for you) and it arrived
yesterday, just in time for the bank holiday weekend. Hats off to Apple
actually; the [...]
Wednesday, May 24th, 2006 by Peter Scott
Today was a playday. I spent the day having a go with the new Enterprise Edition of Oracle’s BI suite. I found some of the tools very easy use and as a person with a database rather than a user-tool background I didn’t have that baggage of saying Discoverer is better for that, Business Objects [...]
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006 by Mark Rittman
Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g Release 2, previously known by the codename
"Paris", is now available for download on OTN. This is the long-awaited
release that adds support for things such as pluggable mappings, slowly changing
dimensions, data modelling of both relational and multi-dimensional objects,
data profiling, and many other new features.
An important change that’s come with this new release [...]
Sunday, May 21st, 2006 by Peter Scott
In data warehouse there is often the need to summarise, aggregate, or roll-up (the three terms often being used interchangeably) fact data. This is either achieved at query time within the query or in advance by the use of pre-built summaries. As I blogged yesterday, pre-built summaries are often useful to provide answers to frequently [...]
