Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 by Peter Scott
But before that:
Why are recruitment companies so unnecessarily secretive ?
I have just seen an ad for a senior role at a leading Global BI vendor that goes out of its way to hide the name of the company recruiting - it’s a bit sad though that they mentioned part of the role is to “help […]
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
I’m currently sitting on the flight back from Johannesburg to London Heathrow, after running an Oracle BI Enterprise Edition workshop on behalf of Oracle South Africa. On the way back from the conference centre, I did smile to myself as I saw a road sign for Pretoria out of the car window – it’s not […]
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007 by Peter Scott
A little while back I took part in a partitioning survey. You may have seen it mentioned on Ton Kyte’s blog. It is certainly good to be asked these things - but I expect that the organiser of the survey already had an inkling of my views anyway.
Still, I actually like a lot about Oracle’s […]
Sunday, May 13th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
During the past week I’ve been working on getting row-level security working with Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition. Like most OBIEE topics, typing the subject into google brings up zero results and so my first port of call was the online documentation on OTN. I’m not a particularly big fan of the online docs for […]
Saturday, May 12th, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson
The UKOUG is having a conference in December and the call for papers for the 2007 calendar has been open for a while now. I just finished submitting an abstract through their website. This is the first submission I make to such a big conference so I don’t have too high expectations. My idea is […]
Thursday, May 10th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
Just a quick catch up post, as I sit here watching Spurs draw 1-1 with Blackburn.
Brian Duff posted a link earlier this week to the new Oracle Blogs Semantic Web site, that aggregates a much wider set of blogs than the old blogs.oracle.com site, and adds some Ajax, tags and semantic web goodness to allow […]
Thursday, May 10th, 2007 by Peter Scott
Back in January I wrote about a bug we found in the query optimiser that caused some of our complex temporary table star_transformation query candidates to crash the plan evaluation phase of optimisation with an ORA 604 error.
Well, the effort of filing the test case was worthwhile - the guys and gals at Oracle have […]
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 by Peter Scott
Like cars and people, a data warehouse can benefit from a check-up to keep things in top condition. Unlike cars and people data warehouses don’t tend to have parts that wear out but DWs do age; either technology moves on and new, more efficient, techniques can utilised or the original design no longer matches the […]
Monday, May 7th, 2007 by Mark Rittman
Whilst I was over at Collaborate’07 last month, one of the biggest bits of product news that I heard about, but couldn’t mention fully at the time, was details of the new 11g release of Oracle OLAP. Chris Claterbos from Vlamis Software Solutions was given permission by Oracle OLAP product management to put some slides […]
Saturday, May 5th, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson
Ok, so I tried running the OBIEE installer again, this time choosing only BI Server option. When I read through the install.log I noticed that it was complaining about that the UnixChk.sh didn’t exist. The reason for that was simple, I had renamed it when I was writing the previous post. I renamed the file […]
