Thursday, March 29th, 2007 by Peter Scott
The first on a occasional series of questions I might ask in an interview - or perhaps would like to be asked if someone were to interview me…
How do you design a data warehouse?
Now that is a vague question - am I looking for an insight to the analysis and design process (requirements gathering and other […]
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
I mentioned a while ago that I’ll be doing three presentations at the upcoming EOUC Oracle User Conference in Amsterdam in May. This is the first such pan-European event for a while, and looking at the agenda there’s a pretty good range of speakers (myself excepted of course…)
Anyway, if you register now you can take […]
Monday, March 26th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
I’ve been working fairly solidly with Oracle Data Integrator over the past few weeks, and I think I’ve used it enough now to form a few opinions on the product. I did some work with a client who wanted to evaluate it for it’s ability to handle Changed Data Capture, I’ve been writing an article […]
Friday, March 23rd, 2007 by admin
Oracle University have asked me to do another round of BI Masterclasses later this year, and I’m looking for some input and feedback from readers of this blog to help me decide on what I’m going to cover. This year and last, I ran about fifteen or so masterclasses around Europe and averaged about 30 […]
Friday, March 23rd, 2007 by Peter Scott
One snippet of news that I picked up on this week is that Netezza is going public with its IPO, this is the first of the appliance vendors to do so (someone will tell me I’m wrong on this)
Elsewhere I read some research that puts some 50% of data warehouses in the one terabyte or […]
Friday, March 23rd, 2007 by Peter Scott
One of my team has just upgraded an OWB implementation on a customers development system. By and large most of the upgrade went well - everything was pretty much as described in the documentation. The upgraded code just needed to be called from a different shell script (we use a third-part cross platform scheduler product […]
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson
I finished banging Beryl in to my newly installed Ubuntu box last night. I run a dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu 6.10. The mix of IDE and SATA disks made Grub gag a bit but it all went ok in the end. I had previously installed Fedora Core (from 1 to 5) but decided […]
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson
Well, spring is here. Well, not exactly. The date has arrived but in sunny Belgium, we seem to have missed the whole event. It actually snowed today as we were enjoying our “Bring a plate” lunch, followed by the usual drinks (and this time even beer). These team-building are really enjoyable and everybody really seemed […]
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 by Peter Scott
If there is a geek gene I have almost certainly inherited it from both of my parents. On balance this probably a good thing to have (at my age, if not necessarily when a teenager) and I have adapted my lifestyle to cope with it. But one thing that I struggle with is the ability […]
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
Tomorrow is the OUG Scotland BI Tech SIG Meeting up in Edinburgh, and I’m about to get on a train up to Gatwick to fly up this afternoon. I’m doing two presentations, the PDFs for which I’ve just uploaded:
Manage the DW Lifecycle using OWB10gR2
An Introduction to Oracle Data Integrator
Apart from myself, Peter Scott and Mike […]
