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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 [...]

I noticed on the Oracle OLAP blog the other day that a new white paper on Cube Organized Materialized Views has been uploaded to OTN. If you’ve followed Pete and my postings on this new feature in Oracle 11g the white paper goes into a bit more detail on how it works, and in our [...]

So, why is someone who normally writes about data warehouses going to talk about Oracle OLAP, and in particular, cube organized materialized views? I could run out the argument that I work in a BI consultancy and none of us here at Rittman Mead are 100% aligned to a specific expertise area; for example I [...]

A question I’ve often been asked over the last year or so is “what’s happening with Oracle BI Beans?” For anyone not aware of what BI Beans is/are, it’s a J2EE component set that connects to Oracle OLAP via the Java OLAP API and was used as the building blocks for the OLAP version of [...]

One of the reasons I am not writing too much on the blog at present is that I am busy working with a client just about to put a new (small) data warehouse into production. Coupled with the need to concentrate on submitting a white paper to Collaborate 08 by the weekend and I am [...]