SAP’s New BI Accelerator

Monday, September 25th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

In my Log Buffer posting at the end of last week I made a passing reference to SAP’s new BI Accelerator, and made the flippant comment “Yeah, right..,” about the claim that it did away with the need to tune or pre-summarize your data warehouse. The article did however pique my interest, and having had [...]

Flying out to Lithuania and Estonia

Sunday, September 24th, 2006 by Mark Rittman

I’m up at 5.00am tomorrow morning for the next leg of my BI Seminar, this time in Lithuania and Estonia. I’ve never been to the Baltic states before; In terms of behind the former Iron Curtain, I’ve been to the Czech Republic for a weekend break, but never so close to Russia and never on [...]

Log Buffer #11: A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Friday, September 22nd, 2006 by Mark Rittman

Welcome to this week’s Log Buffer, where we’ll take a look at some of the hot topics and blog postings over the last few days. As it’s Friday and we’re all starting to wind down for the weekend, we’ll start off with Tom Kyte on The Daily WTF who has come up with an example [...]

Working Through Some SCD 2 and 3 Examples Using OWB10gR2

Thursday, September 21st, 2006 by Mark Rittman

A couple of days ago I mentioned that I wanted to take a look at SCD2 and 3 handling using OWB10gR2. This was prompted by the fact that up until now I hadn’t really looked in detail at this feature, and I’d been reading a few articles and blog postings that suggested the way it [...]

Working Through Some SCD 2 and 3 Examples Using OWB10gR2

Thursday, September 21st, 2006 by Mark Rittman

A couple of days ago I mentioned that I wanted to take a look at SCD2 and 3 handling using OWB10gR2. This was prompted by the fact that up until now I hadn’t really looked in detail at this feature, and I’d been reading a few articles and blog postings that suggested the way it [...]

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