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I’ve been giving some thought recently to how Oracle Warehouse Builder 10gR2 is configured and used when working in a production environment. Most people who “kick the tires” with OWB10gR2 do so on their own laptop, or on their own pc, with a local database on which the repository, source tables and target environment are […]

It’s currently Sunday lunchtime over in the UK, and I’m here on a flying visit in between visits to Austria and Slovenia last week, and Sweden next. I ran the BI Masterclass last week in Vienna and Ljubljana (photos here, here, here, here and here) and spent the evenings working on the OWB ETL and […]

I just noticed on the OTN OWB Exchange page that four add-on “Experts” are available for Warehouse Builder 10gR2.

the Create Dimension Expert, that allows you to create a ROLAP or MOLAP dimension from an existing table.
the AW/XML Import Expert, that allows you to import AWM dimension, cube and measure templates into OWB.
the OLAP Accelerator Expert, […]

A quick round-up of some odds and ends. First of all, a BIG thank you to Anders Holbøll who put together a script to gather all my previous blog articles from the Google cache, format them into an RSS feed compatible with Wordpress’ import facility, then worked with me to use them to restore all […]

I mentioned in my posting yesterday that, whilst at Open World last week, I was struck by the many conversations I had with people around Oracle business intelligence and Service Orientated Architectures (generally shortened to SOA and, within Oracle, pronounced “So-ah”.) BI was also positioned very much within the Fusion Middleware stack of products, alongside […]

Well I’m back in the UK now, and I’ve had yesterday and this morning to myself before the family gets back from Ireland. We’re all back at work tomorrow (well school and nursery for the kids, we haven’t got them working as chimney sweeps yet) so I’ve been earning a few brownie-points giving the house […]

I’m sitting now in the Speaker Ready-room down in the Moscone South mezzanine, in between sessions on Oracle Database 11g and the BI Suite Enteprise Edition & Standard Edition presentations later this afternoon. The morning started off with the Chuck Rozwat keynote on Oracle’s database technology, a run through of the new 10g products launched […]

Even though the new release of Oracle Warehouse Builder has support for the creation of Analytic Workspaces, up until recently I’ve still been using Analytic Workspace Manager to create them, as it’s the tool I’m familiar with and it gets the job done with the minimum of fuss. At one of my […]

Even though the new release of Oracle Warehouse Builder has support for the creation of Analytic Workspaces, up until recently I’ve still been using Analytic Workspace Manager to create them, as it’s the tool I’m familiar with and it gets the job done with the minimum of fuss. At one of my […]

Of course whilst I’ve been gallivanting around Europe doing my BI seminars,the news came out from Redwood Shores earlier this week that Oracle had bought Sunopsis, an ETL tool vendor that probably most people wouldn’t have heard ofuntil this announcement was made. Sunopsis, as Peter Scott points out, sell two products that operate within the […]