Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Yesterday I mentioned a small analytic project we are doing for a retail customer around money laundering. Joel Gary commented and linked to an article in his local press about the rise of anti-fraud analytic companies in his neck of California. Money laundering is a big issue in the UK, not necessarily because it is [...]

A somewhat slow week blogwise; loads of events that are not blog worthy, or just unusable for confidentiality reasons. Some may be written about later, but others will be locked away for ever. At long last one of my customers is going to upgrade the Oracle version of there multi-terabyte DW. When I designed it [...]

I’ve been giving some thought recently to how Oracle Warehouse Builder 10gR2 is configured and used when working in a production environment. Most people who “kick the tires” with OWB10gR2 do so on their own laptop, or on their own pc, with a local database on which the repository, source tables and target environment are [...]

A quick nod to a few new blogs that I’ve recently spotted. Simon Ellis is someone I’ve worked with on a couple of projects before, and is a pretty capable technologist and project lead working in the Oracle middleware and architecture space. Simon’s posted a couple of good articles recently on Oracle’s move into the [...]

The nuts and bolts of putting together a decent data warehouse are not that hard. You just need to get the I/O right ;-) OK, in reality there is a little more to it: you need to make sure you store the correct granularity of data, you have all of the right constraints in place [...]