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 idea […]

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 […]

Last Friday I got an email from the UKOUG Events Team informing me that my abstract, titled
“Implementing Access Control for the new Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition”
has just been accepted for the UKOUG 2007 conference in Birmingham, come December. I got a slot on the Wednesday, Dec 5th, right after lunch. This will be […]

Arrived in the office this morning and glanced towards the window; it was that sort of heavy grey light, the sort you see just before a heavy winter’s snowstorm. Then I realised that the warehouse being constructed next to my office building had been clad over the weekend in battleship-grey siding; now I can’t […]

I see that Oracle have posted a series of white papers on the soon to arrive 11g release, the one on partitioning caught my eye.
But first an aside: Does anyone actually use slower storage for less-accessed data? The theory sounds good: put the-once-in-a-blue-moon stuff on slower, cheaper, disk and the “use all of the time” […]

If like me you’re a Mac owner who’s been following with interest the Fake Steve Jobs blog (try here, here and here for a sample), you’ll be amused to know that Steve’s away for a while and Fake Larry Ellison has taken over for a few weeks. According to FSJ:
“Bit of news here. Larry Ellison […]

Oracle University in London ran the first of my new Enterprise Business Intelligence Masterclasses last week, where we focused on the use of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition alongside enterprise software and identity management tools. We had a good turnout and as usual Oracle did a good job in terms of venue, administration and so […]