Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Two statements Modern query tools allow multiple data sources to be interrogated in a single query => there is no need to consolidate information in a monolithic data warehouse The size of databases are increasing. Last year’s Wintercorp survey illustrated it very clearly, as did a straw poll during a VLDB presentation at UK OUG [...]

UPDATE: Well, what can I say. Thanks to Nick Goodman, Rahul Argawal, Scott Gruber, Peter K, and in particular Andy C, we’ve been able to recover a large number of the most requested or most interesting articles in less than a day. Many, many thanks to all of you, including those that offered after we had parcelled [...]

I’m back now from the UKOUG Conference in Birmingham, and as my wife is now away for the weekend, it’s my turn to look after the kids for a few days – which is quite nice actually, as I’m away all next week doing seminars in Dublin and Reading. After the week I’ve had though, [...]

In this first article since the “Amazing November 2006 Blog Catastrophe”, I’m going to go back to Sunopsis Data Conductor and look at what’s involved in putting your own project together, running against Oracle datasources and targets. For anyone who’s not kept up with the Oracle news, Sunopsis are the ETL vendor Oracle are in [...]

In this first article since the “Amazing November 2006 Blog Catastrophe”, I’m going to go back to Sunopsis Data Conductor and look at what’s involved in putting your own project together, running against Oracle datasources and targets. For anyone who’s not kept up with the Oracle news, Sunopsis are the ETL vendor Oracle are in [...]