Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

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 [...]

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, [...]

One of the things I had expected to do this week was to write about some of my BI and DW highlights from Collaborate 10. However, that is not to be. I am currently sitting at home in the UK, a victim of a cloud of volcanic ash that has locked down aviation in Northern [...]

The 11gR2 release of Warehouse Builder came out for Windows towards the end of last week, firstly as part of the wider Oracle Database 11gR2 download, and then in the standalone version. Now that there’s a Windows client available to work with the various Unix server elements, everything is now in place for customers to [...]