Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

One of the themes I keep retuning to is the time dimension in Data Warehouses. I use the word “time” in the physics sense of something continuous and not the cyclical “clock” sense. Time (and in my sense, time could be measured in units far more coarse than hours and minutes) is almost ubiquitous in [...]

I just noticed on the OTN OWB Exchange page that four add-on “Experts” are available for Warehouse Builder 10gR2. the Create Dimension Expert, that allows you to create a ROLAP or MOLAP dimension from an existing table. the AW/XML Import Expert, that allows you to import AWM dimension, cube and measure templates into OWB. the [...]

I was reading The Guardian on the way up to London yesterday, and I got thinking about what I’d say if I was interviewed for the “My Media” column (well, got thinking about for a total of about two seconds, but it makes an interesting blog post). Anyway, as I’m a total media sponge, here’s [...]

Now this looks interesting. Swivel is a new site that aims to be the “Youtube of data”, with a Flickr-like interface and a means for users to upload interesting sets of data and make them available for everyone to download. Once data is uploaded, you can match it up with other sets of data (global [...]

Following on from the 10.2.0.3 patch release for Oracle Database 10g, Anthony Waite has just informed us that the 10.2.0.3 release of Analytic Workspace Manager and the Global Sample Schema are now available for download on OTN. According to Anthony, the new features of this release include: “* Sparsity Advisor determines which dimensions are sparse, [...]