UKOUG 2007 abstract just got accepted

Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 by Borkur Steingrimsson

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 [...]

A grey day

Monday, August 6th, 2007 by Peter Scott

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 [...]

Oracle Partitioning 2007

Saturday, August 4th, 2007 by Peter Scott

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” [...]

Fake Larry Ellison Starts Blogging

Saturday, August 4th, 2007 by Mark Rittman

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 [...]

Update on the First of the New BI Masterclasses

Friday, August 3rd, 2007 by Mark Rittman

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 [...]

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