Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 [...]

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 [...]