Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Imagine that you want to migrate your RPD to different environments.  By using scripting utilities you can generate a new RPD and make changes for the new RPD in the generated file.  The  original RPD will be exported to  UDML or XUDML , in the generated file you can make changes for future RPD.  For [...]

I have been thinking about address a lot recently, in part it was moving house and all of the 1001 people that need to be notified. In the main, though, it was thoughts inspired by a data warehouse project I am working on. For this DWH people are geo-located by their street address, but for [...]

Looks like BI EE 11g silently made it to OTN yesterday. The software is available for download now. It can be downloaded from here.  Currently its available only for Windows (32 bit & 64 bit) & Linux (32 bit & 64 bit). Watch out this blog for detailed postings on new features and the changes [...]

Every year, ODTUG shows why Kaleidoscope is the premier conference for the technical hacks in all of us. I can’t remember a time when I learned so much, had so many great conversations, and felt more at home than this year. The content was spectacular across the board, and even though Open World is looming [...]

This posting is slightly edited to clarify that the majority of  the post is about using transactional or transactionally structured sources for reporting. One of the points I make early on in my talk “Getting Real Data Warehouse Loading as it Happens” is that realtime business intelligence is not the same as realtime data warehousing; [...]