Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

The typical approach in Federated OLTP/EDW reporting environments is to use a BI tool such as OBIEE to do horizontal federation. This means combining data from multiple sources at the same grain in a single logical table. One note of clarification: my use of the word “federated” might be a misnomer, and I apologize in [...]

Discussing real-time data warehousing is difficult because the meaning of real-time is dependent on context. A CIO of an organization that has weekly batch refresh processes might view an up-to-the-day dashboard as real-time, while another organization that already has daily refresh cycles might be looking for something closer to up-to-the-hour. In truth, an interval will [...]

I’m honored to be delivering a webcast for the Oracle Data Warehouse Global Leaders Program on Tuesday, March 22 at Noon EST. This is an elite program for key global data warehousing customers and is managed by the Oracle data warehousing product management team. It also provides a rich opportunity to network with peers, and these webcasts are one of [...]

It was another excellent year at RMOUG, or the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group for the laymen in the audience. This is the first Oracle conference I can remember where I was the sole Rittman Mead speaker. That is because Mark Rittman has been so busy lately with Oracle Master Classes, and Borkur Steingrimsson, who [...]

I’m currently on a plane headed to Denver for the annual RMOUG Training Days conference. This is my second year speaking at RMOUG, which is the largest regional Oracle user group conference in the country (or so they tell me). RMOUG always has a strong database and DBA slant to it, so I try to [...]