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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.

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]