Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 [...]

Oracle have just published my latest article, on the integration between Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g Release 2 and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, in the July/August 2010 edition of Oracle Magazine.
“Deriving and Sharing Business Intelligence Metadata” looks at how OBIEE repositories can be automatically derived from an OWB11gR2 dimension model, taking the dimensions, facts, [...]

I received a question from a client today about the best way to add a date parameter to a mapping. In this case, they were looking for the max date in a particular table, and they wanted to use that date as a source in a mapping. Below I’ll demonstrate some of the different ways [...]

Oracle Magazine has recently gone through a re-design, and the May/June 2010 edition comes with a new article by myself on “Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g Release 2 and Heterogeneous Databases”.
This article looks at the new 11gR2 version of Oracle Warehouse Builder (see this posting for more background), and in particular looks at how code templates [...]

It’s been a fun week in good old Las Vegas. Though in the end I broke even at the tables, I enjoyed holding a large amount of the Mandalay Bay’s money for them for two or three days, just to give it all back to them last night before leaving. There wasn’t any interest charged, [...]