Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

A couple of days ago I mentioned that I wanted to take a look at SCD2 and 3 handling using OWB10gR2. This was prompted by the fact that up until now I hadn’t really looked in detail at this feature, and I’d been reading a few articles and blog postings that suggested the way it […]

Well that’s the first of the BI Seminars over and done with now, and I was pleasantly surprised that, firstly we had around thirty attendees, and secondly, it more or less went off without a hitch.
I must admit I was expecting about a maximum of ten attendees, so thirty was pretty good and about the […]

Like Doug and Alex, I got my acceptance email through from the UKOUG yesterday saying that my two papers had been accepted for the conference in November. I know most of you probably thought I picked the papers in the BI track anyway, but this year I couldn’t make it to the paper selection day […]

Earlier this year Mark Rittman and I briefly discussed the concept of a matching pair of conference papers on aggregation in Business Intelligence. Mark would look at the use of Oracle OLAP as an aggregation technique and I would do something similar on conventional (and maybe less conventional) relational techniques. Both papers would be standalone, […]

It’s Monday morning at about ten to seven, and for the first time in three years at the UKOUG, I’ve actually had a good night’s sleep. My plan to go out on Sunday night and get trashed has obviously worked, so now it’s just a chance to catch up with emails and […]

Just a brief update after I’ve arrived up in Birmingham for the UKOUG Conference. I came up by train this time rather than drive, as the drive up from Brighton is on the one hand either really tedious - around the M25 then an hour up the M40 - or a nightmare - a hair-raising […]