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Today was the official launch of Oracle Database 11g in New York City, whilst another event, the Oracle Fusion IT Conference, was being held at the Emirates Stadium in London. I couldn’t make it to either as I was onsite with a customer, but the New York event marked the public launch of Oracle’s new [...]

Certain solitary acts give me great pleasure. Oddly, I consider the intellectual challenge of getting some of my customers’ queries to fly a solitary act, it’s me against the database. Or perhaps me against the customer. I have been working on a set of poorly performing queries that have been causing a customer a lot [...]

The other day I was doing some OWB work for a client. I had done some 60 mappings of the most basic kind, when I noticed that the mapping I had used as the basis (I use copy/paste a lot when working with OWB) had the ‘Maximum number of errors’ runtime parameter set to the [...]

This week, apart from some interesting client work, I’ve been mostly spending my free time finishing off the BI and SOA section of the new masterclass, and working on the section after that on Oracle Real-Time Decisions. Although I spend a fair amount of time in the new masterclass looking at the OBIEE basics – [...]

This one doesn’t quite relate to BI, but here is a function I hadn’t seen before: new_time . This function accepts three arguments: A date, the timezone this date should be considered in, and the timezone you want the return value to be in. This can come in handy in some situations, but there is [...]