Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Thanks to all the people who had kind words to say yesterday
when I was feeling a bit down in the dumps; it was my son’s first day
at school yesterday but instead I was working onsite with a client on a
new data mart project. I’m usually a pretty positive person and it
doesn’t usually take me much time to get wrapped up in a project, after
a chat with Scott and a good night’s sleep it’s all much less of an
issue.

Today was a pretty productive day – it’s an interesting project and a good customer to work for. Today we were working on pulling a scope and development plan
together for a data mart, the value in terms of replacing manual work
with an ETL tool, and delivering a new set of customer MI reports
that’ll set them apart from their customers is pretty compelling.

I was also amused to get an advert for my BI Seminar in my
email from Oracle University – I knew the UK event was coming up soon
but I wasn’t expecting a picture with my shifty look and set of
eyebrows on it – I’ve already had a humourous email through from Miss
Dobson and I’m sure there’ll be more to come. 

Apart from that I’m finally making some
progress with my aggregation testing – I’ve spent the last two days
trying to get the imported tables into the separate tablespaces I’ve
created for each test schema, the key in the end was revoking the
RESOURCE priviledge, setting quota to 0 for each new user on the
EXAMPLE tablespace and making sure the new tablespaces are set as the
user’s default tablespace – thanks
Galen Boyer – and I’ve just finished off the final version of
my Oracle Business Intelligence Suite book which has now gone off to a
potential publisher.

One thing I did miss out on today was the Scottish OUG event in
Glasgow. Jonathan, Mogens, Doug, Anjo, Jason Pepper and Peter Robson
were all on the agenda, arch ligger Jeff Moss was up there as well,
plus my colleague Sonia was doing a presentation on BI Suite Enterprise
Edition – pretty impressive as she had about one week to learn the
product, get the demo up and running and put a presentation together. I
really must get myself up to Scotland for the next
event if only to get Doug Burns to buy me a pint, I sort-of promised to
do a presentation on OWB “Paris” a while ago and I’ll try and follow
through on that soon.

Finally, as a treat I took myself along to
one of Newbury’s finest curry houses tonight and treated myself to a
slap-up butterfly prawn, nan bread, lamb pathia and pilau rice, now I’m
back I’m going to have a rest for once and get on with the rest of the
aggregation testing tomorrow. A couple of people – David Aldridge, Jack
Raitto and Peter Scott – have made some good suggestions on putting the
materialized views together, I’ll couple these up with what I planned
anyway and see how things get on. Back in a couple of days.

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