Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

When setting up my new PC was that I should down load the OWB reporting add in for SQL Developer. I used to use this tool in preference to using the web reporting from the repository

I have long been a fan of Raptor, or as it became when it was an official product, SQL Developer. […]

I finally got around to installing Oracle 11g earlier this afternoon, and I was pleasantly surprised to notice that Oracle Warehouse Builder gets installed by default:

For someone like myself who makes most of his living from either consulting in, or training in, Warehouse Builder, this is of course good news as it gets the tool […]

I was at the BIWA conference earlier this week (Tuesday and Wednesday), BIWA is an Oracle user group, which as the name suggests, specialises in Business Intelligence, Warehousing and Analytics, more info can be found here on their website. They are planning to run a yearly conference, plus other events and also a series of […]

At long last, my final data warehouse customer on Oracle 9 is moving on to 10g. It has been a somewhat protracted move as for reasons of vendor support certification we had to adopt a specific order of refreshing their whole technology stack. That’s not to say we have no Oracle 8i customers out there […]

Things have been a bit quiet on the blog recently, as Jon and I have taken a bit of leave and I’ve been working on a couple of articles for Oracle. As well as the articles, Jon and I are also due to present at a number of events between now and the end of […]

The other day I was doing some OWB work for a client. I had done some 60 mappings of the most basic kind, when I noticed that the mapping I had used as the basis (I use copy/paste a lot when working with OWB) had the ‘Maximum number of errors’ runtime parameter set to the […]

I have been putting together some thoughts on Agile Development techniques for a paper for the BIWA event later in the year. I have seen a couple of articles on Agile development notably on the Amis blog, here, in the Oracle space, so thought I would add my tuppence worth.
One of the principles of Agile […]

I’m currently sitting in the deli cafe at the Hilton Daytona Beach hotel, about to leave and get my connecting flight through to Atlanta. I’ve been so busy during the past few days that I’ve not really had a chance to write about the ODTUG Kaleidoscope event that’s been running here, but now I’ve checked […]

I’m currently sitting outside in sunny Athens, putting the finishing touches to some exercises I’m going to be using in a training session tomorrow. Jon Mead mentioned in a blog posting the other week that a major part of what we’ve been up to since forming the company is providing data warehouse healthchecks; the other […]

Rather strangely as Mark jets off to Greece for a weeks holiday, I am also off there for a few days work (he’s here next week working as well).
Looking back over the first few months of the company a lot of the work we have been doing has been either Data Warehouse healthchecks or OWB […]