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The proposal deadline for the upcoming Collaborate 08 was shortly before I was to leave my old employer – it was already known that I would be leaving them to join Mark and Jon (and possibly, it was known before Rittman Mead Consulting existed!) so it came as no real surprise for Mark to ask [...]

Just a quick posting on Saturday morning to mention some new Oracle OLAP and Essbase blogs that I’ve come across. First up is an Oracle OLAP blog by some of the most well-known people behind the product. Kevin Lancaster (well known to us at the UK Oracle User Group), Keith Laker (ditto), Jameson White (the [...]

Over the past few days I’ve been taking a closer look at how query rewrite works with the new 11g release of Oracle OLAP. As a quick recap, in Oracle 11g you can now use OLAP analytic workspaces as summaries within your data warehouse, with Oracle now able to register OLAP dimensions and cubes as [...]

A demo I’ve seen at several Oracle events over the past year is one where ApEx (Application Express) is linked in with Oracle OLAP. The idea is that the charting and reporting capability of ApEx is used against the SQL views over an Analytic Workspace, giving you the ease of development of ApEx combined with [...]

Now I’m on the flight over to London back from Open World, I’ve got a few hours spare to take a proper look at the 11g release of Oracle OLAP. In particular I’m trying to find out whether it runs ok without any show-stopper bugs, whether there are any new features in Analytic Workspace Manager, [...]