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I’ve been away for a few days, but when I got back tonight I noticed that Oracle Data Integrator, formerly known as Sunopsis Data Conductor and the subject of a number of my blog postings late last year, is now available for download on OTN. Data Integrator differs from Warehouse Builder in that it sits [...]

Drag and drop ETL tools sometimes encourage the use of a generic approach. Load a flat file to stage, validate the data, apply some transforms and publish to a data warehouse is after all standard fare within a data warehouse. But what when there is some subtle difference in the process that does not get [...]

Nuno Souto posts an interesting set of thoughts on Extremely Large Databases. As usual, it is a well thought through post from someone who is probably scarred for life from actually working with large databases. In a data warehouse (or even a very large transactional system) context the reader is lead to an inevitability of [...]

Sometimes people write to me or post questions on the blog along the lines of “I’m new to data warehouses, which xxxx is best?” where xxxx could be tool, database, hardware platform, design methodology, in fact, xxxx could be almost anything.
Well, nothing is clear-cut, the fact that choices are available and people continue to make [...]

I’ve been a bit remiss recently in keeping the blog up to date; what with planning for the forthcoming company seminar later in January, and writing a new article on XML Publisher in my spare time, I’ve not really had much time to keep the blog up to date; also, compared to things such as [...]