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The other day I posted an article on migrating OWB modules to production, and I said that I’d come back shortly with some OMB*Plus code to automate the migration process. As good as my word, I’m now back with the said code. In this example, we have a module called “CUSTOMERS” in an OWB10gR2 proiject [...]

I have written recently about the trend towards ever larger databases. But what should we call these VLDB systems? A few years back a set of terms seem to fit well, DSS, MIS, data warehouse, datamart; sometimes the distinction between them was very blurred. But by and large we were dividing the reporting from the [...]

Back at the start of February I mentioned that I was leaving my consulting job and moving in to the world of independent consultancy; now that the move is complete and I’ve started the new business up, I can finally start talking about what I’ve got planned for the future. As you’ve probably noticed from [...]

Yesterday I ungraciously forgot to mention Nuno Souto’s blog piece from January where he was talking about just the same sort of issues with access to massive databases. Please go and read Noons’ work, it is well worth it. I mentioned two challenges yesterday, putting the data into the database and finding it again. Systems [...]

If you’re reading this, it means the migration of my blog to the new company site has been successful. I’ll post more news on what this means over the next few days, but for now, welcome to Rittman Mead Consulting, the name of our new consulting venture.