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My last post looked at some aspects of performance tuning that would make traditional DBAs blanche with horror, not once did I mention indexing, partitioning, PCTFREE or parallel. This was not because I don’t consider them important, but more that the simple test of “am I doing the right thing” is often overlooked. To appease [...]

My second presentation at this year’s RMOUG Training Days was on tuning “realtime data warehouses”; as usual, this paper is now on the Rittman Mead Articles page.  Perhaps more accurately my talk was more about my tuning philosophy rather than a cookbook of tuning “rules” to give optimal performance. I don’t think there is a [...]

Last week I travelled from Europe to present at the RMOUG Training Days event In Denver, Colorado. As I blogged a couple of weeks back, this is one of my favourite user group conferences and it never fails to impress me. I expect to be wowed even more next year as they clock up their [...]

One of the great things about working here at Rittman Mead is our corporate ethos of sharing our knowledge and experience. Of course, much of this is “paid for” work with our customers where we train, mentor, consult, develop, implement and support all manner of things Oracle BI. However, sharing with the community is also [...]

This week Stewart, Mark and I are at Collaborate 12 in Las Vegas – look us out if you are at the conference. Long flights (it’s about 10 hours from the UK to Las Vegas) give me plenty of blogging time so I decided to write a few new blogs. Here’s the first. One part [...]