Index organized tables in data warehouses

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 by Peter Scott

Like a lot of newfangled stuff, IOTs are perhaps less commonly used in DW systems than they might be. In part this is an extension of the “I’ve always done it like this, so why change” attitude, and in part it identifying a suitable use where the performance benefits can shine. IOTs are not silver [...]

More statistics

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 by Peter Scott

Following from yesterday and the comment about 5th January being the most popular day to seek new work. January is also a popular time to think of divorce. Just like NCR & Teradata!  opps – typo corrected…

Data Warehouse speed

Saturday, January 6th, 2007 by Peter Scott

I see that David Aldridge is buying a new laptop, now that is a dilemma! Do you go for the biggest, fastest CPU, the most RAM, the best display or choose something more modest?. Of course it depends what you are going to do, I just need a machine that is plain vanilla enough (no [...]

Free Business Intelligence “Discovery Masterclass” : London Jan 17th

Friday, January 5th, 2007 by Mark Rittman

For anyone in the UK and Ireland who wanted to come along to one of the recent BI Masterclasses, but for whatever reason couldn’t make it, you might be interested in a one day event being organized by SolStonePlus in London on January 17th, 2007, at Oracle’s offices in the City of London. The event [...]

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