Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

A few days back, I introduced our special guests for the Rittman Mead BI Forum in Atlanta, focusing first on Cary Millsap. Today I’d like to talk about our other special guest: Oracle ACE Director Alex Gorbachev. Alex was an inspiration for me back in the Oracle Database 10g and early 11g days when I [...]

I feel like I’m introducing the Beatles… though I think Kellyn Pot’Vin calls them the “DBA Gods”.  Today I’ll be talking about Cary Millsap, and tomorrow I’ll introduce our other special guest: Alex Gorbachev. As many of you know, I grew up as a DBA (albeit, focusing on data warehouse environments) before transitioning to development… [...]

It’s going to be a busy few weeks leading up to the BI Forum. First, Rittman Mead will be exhibiting at the UKOUG Engineered Systems Summit on Tuesday 16th April, this is a one day event in London for Exadata, Exalogic, SuperCluster and not least Exalytics. Mark will be presenting on Oracle Exalytics – Tips [...]

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 [...]