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David Aldridge, aka the OracleSponge has recently blogged on the three ‘P’s of Data Warehousing. David commented that the “pseudo P”, summarisation, was perhaps the most important. Well, I must say that I agree with him there. In whatever form, be they conventional tables or materialized views, summaries can dramatically boost performance for user queries. [...]

Like Lisa Dobson and Peter Scott, I went along to the UKOUG BI & Analytics Special Event at the Grange City Hotel, London earlier this week. As the UKOUG BIRT SIG Chair, I helped to organise the event and did one of the presentations, on behalf of my company, SolStonePlus. These special events are sort [...]

… Is watching Arsenal lose it. Still, at least Thierry Henry got to meet some of his new team-mates. I’m so happy I think I’ll go and buy one of those new MacBooks. Days like this don’t come around often.

If you read my articles earlier this year on XML Publisher 5.6 RC2, you’ll be interested to know that the full production version, now known as XML Publisher 5.6.2, is available for download from http://edelivery.oracle.com. It’s a bit of a convoluted download process (choose a language, press OK, enter your details, accept the export restrictions [...]

If you read my article the other day on the architecture of OracleBI Suite Enterprise Edition, here’s a walkthrough of creating a simple report and dashboard. It’s using the Siebel version of the tools as the Oracle branded versions aren’t available yet on OTN, but the steps are the same regardless. In this walkthrough, you [...]