Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

I noticed on Greg Partenach’s blog that the 10.2.0.4 patchset had been released.
Taking a quick look on Metalink I see that patch 7005587 is out for Linux and Windows - no doubt the other platforms will follow quite soon.
I have not had chance to test the patch yet, but if it does what is […]

As I mentioned before, Rittman Mead Consulting really does consulting, it’s in the company name!!
Although a lot of the posts on the company blog are based on our presentations, our work is not all speaking at conferences and delivering training. My colleagues and I are often working with customers on project work. Often we can’t […]

One of my first tasks on joining Rittman Mead Consulting was to develop a new three-day course on data warehouse design.
A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to ‘road test’ some of the course content in a different presentation format; a tutorial-style workshop. Although I had a plan of the topics to be covered […]

A few days ago, Farooq posted some comments on an old post of mine. The final comment in our exchange concerned storing activities in our data warehouse by time (actual hour and minute). This is quite a common requirement, especially where the performance of customer service agents is being measured (as in Farooq’s question)
I would […]

As Mark mentioned and illustrated last week, I really did have an audience to my talk on Cube-Organized Materialized Views. He also managed to choose a camera angle for one of the photos that made the conference room look completely empty, but thankfully that was not the photo he published. In fact the presentation went […]

I am sitting in my hotel room, bathed in beautiful sunshine as the sun dips towards the snow-capped mountains. Better make the most of it for tomorrow is forecast to be a lot (like 19ºC) colder and maybe even a touch of snow. Not that we will see much of the outdoors from the convention […]

Up early, as I always am and met Mark for a 6:30AM breakfast. Was criticised for eating “Fruit Loops” as that’s not the sort of thing that the sane consultant eats…
Then back to the hotel room to get a little work out of the way before crossing the street to the Conference Center to get […]

This time next week I should be back in the UK (but probably still trying to find my baggage at the airport!) after presenting my first conference talk in the USA.
I have been through the slides, made a few adjustments and cut a CD copy as a backup to my laptop version (and it is […]

Yesterday, Mark mentioned a new Oracle white paper on Cube Organized Materialized Views - now that is a bit of a mouthful and shouts out to be made COMV or something equally short and saving of typing. I say that because I have recently submitted the final version (in time so as to be included […]

As Mark mentioned in a comment to a posting, we run the Rittman Mead blog on Wordpress. The recent blog revamp may have upset some feed readers that used feed URLs that we no longer maintain.
Using Wordpress gives us many more potential feeds than we had before. In addition to the main feed http://www.rittmanmead.com/feed you […]