Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

I’m sitting in the front row of my Austrian Airlines flight back from Vienna, lording it in business class following my seminar over in Zagreb. I don’t normally get to fly business class, but I must say it is nice to have a bit of legroom and a decent meal an a non-plastic knife and […]

I’m writing this whilst sitting in the departure lounge at Vienna Airport, and as my flight’s been delayed, I thought I’d do the next posting in my “Sunopsis on Oracle” writeup. The other week, I worked through the demo that comes with Sunopsis Data Conductor and said at the time I’d try the software out […]

I flew in this afternoon to Zagreb airport, and it appears I missed the good weather of a week or so ago to instead arrive during the middle of a particularly foggy patch. I’m staying in the Hotel Antunovic just outside the main part of the city, and this is also where the seminar is […]

A quick round-up of some odds and ends. First of all, a BIG thank you to Anders Holbøll who put together a script to gather all my previous blog articles from the Google cache, format them into an RSS feed compatible with Wordpress’ import facility, then worked with me to use them to restore all […]

Whilst the most dangerous thing I’ll be contemplating tonight will be whether to have the lamb shank or the pan-fried trout in the Reading Moathouse restaurant (or perhaps the healthy option - heh), my old work colleague Jon Mead is daft enough to have signed up to do a cross-Atlantic sailing trip in aid of […]

There comes a stage in the life of a data warehouse when it just needs to move on. Sometimes it just outgrows its space, sometimes the underlying technology is in need of a refresh and just sometimes a rethink of the use of resources leads to a consolidation of systems.
Over recent years I have probably […]

I’m just sitting in the departure lounge at Dublin Airport, waiting for my flight back to London Gatwick; I’ve been doing the BI Masterclass over at Oracle’s offices at Eastpoint over the last couple of days, and I’m running it again tomorrow and Friday at Oracle’s offices in Thames Valley Park. Even though it’s my […]

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article (“Oracle BI and SOA - Hype or Here Now?”) that looked at the role Service-Orientated Architecture will have on the world of Oracle BI developers. Since then I’ve been giving a lot of thought as to the practical applications of this new technology, and I was […]

One of my customers uses a web-based user query tool to interrogate their data warehouse. For some while the Tomcat component of the system has been, let’s say, fragile; it often disappears in a puff of metaphorical smoke with a error log message about running out of memory. That should not happen - we think […]

A quick update on the Discoverer 10.1.2.2.0 article I wrote earlier this week, where I mentioned that database patch 5146470 mentioned as a requirement in the documentation isn’t actually available for Windows. At the time I contacted metalink as by not installing the patch, I could have been risking corruption to my analytic workspaces, and […]