Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Apart from running seminars and posting technical articles on the blog, Jon and I (and now Peter Scott) actually do a lot of training and consulting for clients in the UK, Europe and North America. Just for today and for one day later this week, I’m going to take the liberty of running a short […]

Doug Burns writes, amongst other things, about a straw poll at a user group meeting on the number up to date on Oracle CPU patching. One of Doug’s earlier questions was about the numbers that had all of their Oracle databases on 9.2.0.8 or 10.2. It would seem that two-thirds or so did not.
So what […]

So I was reading through Dylan’s blog the other day and noticed an article he’d written about Oracle BI Administrator scripting. The article looked particularly interesting as a couple of people had recently asked me whether it was possible to script the creation of objects in the Oracle BI Server repository, and this looked like […]

One of the interesting new features that came with OBIEE 10.1.3.2 was the Aggregate Persistence Wizard. This utility automates the creation and initial population of aggregates, persists them in a back-end database and configures the BI Server metadata layer so that they’re used when appropriate. What’s particularly interesting about this feature is that you can […]

In addition to moving my responsibilities to other managers, I have been tying up the odd technical loose end.
During the recent upgrade to 10gR2 for one of our DW customers we noticed a frequent query that queried for raw sales for a named customer over a rolling 12 week period. The problem here was that […]

I’m delighted to announce that, in a few weeks time, Peter Scott will be working with Jon Mead and myself as part of the consulting team at Rittman Mead Consulting. Peter is well known within the Oracle data warehousing industry as an expert level consultant, trainer and strategic advisor, and like Jon and myself was […]

Last week I mentioned a new role and said that I could say more about it this week. Well the time has come to reveal a little more.
On Friday 9 November I will be leaving my current employer to go my own way. Well not quite my own way, I will be working in association […]

Venkat and Abhinav posted the news earlier today; Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition 10.1.3.3.1 is now on general release on OTN, I’ve downloaded it and it’s a straightforward upgrade that can be applied on top of 10.1.3.3 (not sure about earlier releases). Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear to come with the Essbase integration that was mentioned […]

I’d noticed a couple of comments on this blog, and some others, around the setup steps required for Oracle BI Publisher and Discoverer integration. Setting this up requires quite a few steps in the 10.1.2.2.0 release of Discoverer, which should be made a lot easier in the 10.2.0.3 release, but for now you have to […]

My e-friend, Beth, has been busy posting from the Information on Demand conference in Las Vegas. She holds dear the belief that data is key, and quality data is the master key. I think saying it like that is putting words into her mouth, but hopefully I am not distorting her view point too much. […]