Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Faking it – a UK reality (real??) TV show where people are given a crash course in some skill completely alien to their normal life (such a classical musician to dance DJ, or librarian to bodyguard) and then sent to compete against real exponents of the trade for a panel of experts to spot the [...]

Jon Mead and I have been running Rittman Mead Consulting for just under six months now, and we’ve worked on projects and training assignments with clients in the UK, Europe, Middle-East and North America. We’re at the point now where the amount of new working coming in is steadily increasing, and we’re therefore starting to [...]

A while back I was trying recruit a DBA to look after a customer’s Oracle E-Business Suite implementation; that is the patching, cloning and kicking the workflow-into-life side of things. It turned out to be a hard search, or perhaps I was a little too demanding in wanting both skill and experience. On occasion I [...]

I’ve been doing some work this week with a client in London, who wants to put together a reporting data mart based on Oracle Database 10gR1. Although they and I were fairly sure a dimensional database design using bitmap indexes and star transformations would give them the query performance they required, there were a number [...]

I’ve finally got a few days back in the country after my recent travels, and I though it’d be worthwhile to jot down a few notes on what I’ve been up to and where I’m going to be later on this year. I’ve done a fair bit of traveling over the past few weeks, culminating [...]