Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Well, I’m official now. The contracts have been signed and I’ve been allocated an ISBN number. It won’t be out for at least a year from now, but I’m now officially the author for the forthcoming Oracle Press book, “Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Developers Guide”. It’s a bit too early to get in to too [...]

One of my pet hates is moving shed-loads of data from the disk to aggregate it away to resolve a user’s query. Experience tells me that the very thought of doing this imposes a massive strain on a data warehouse. Ok, millions of people tell me that I exaggerate, but I don’t think I am [...]

I’ve more or less finishing the opening chapter of the book I’m working on, and I’ve reached the part now where I need a set of sample data for the examples that are going to follow. Without giving too much away (the contracts are being signed now), I need a set of data that I [...]

Sadly, it seems ingrained into Western culture that having more of something than someone else is “good”. This idea that “my dad’s tougher / bigger / richer / cleverer (insert your choice here) than yours” has been the stuff of school yard taunts down the ages. But for a data warehouse is bigness a desirable [...]