Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

At long last, my final data warehouse customer on Oracle 9 is moving on to 10g. It has been a somewhat protracted move as for reasons of vendor support certification we had to adopt a specific order of refreshing their whole technology stack. That’s not to say we have no Oracle 8i customers out there [...]

This year holiday activities have been low key. My elder daughter had various school examination results to receive (for those who know about the English system, GCSEs and AS levels) which basically meant that we needed to be home two Thursdays in August. Coupled with the need to work on the garden, meet the mayor [...]

Things have been a bit quiet on the blog recently, as Jon and I have taken a bit of leave and I’ve been working on a couple of articles for Oracle. As well as the articles, Jon and I are also due to present at a number of events between now and the end of [...]

There you are – I’ve mentioned it. But I have not downloaded it yet. One of the things I do with any new release is to read some (no, not all) of the documentation. The new features documentation, of course, is a given and enough of the of the other stuff to have a good [...]

Over in another place, Doug Burns has been writing on the joys of reproducing a full size database as test instance. He has even (graciously) put up with my wittering about things that not relevant to his articles. So as not to clutter his blog with a stream of off-(his)-topic posts here is a digression [...]