Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]