Rittman Mead - Delivered Intelligence

Yesterday I mentioned a small analytic project we are doing for a retail customer around money laundering. Joel Gary commented and linked to an article in his local press about the rise of anti-fraud analytic companies in his neck of California.
Money laundering is a big issue in the UK, not necessarily because it is a [...]

Nuno Souto posts an interesting set of thoughts on Extremely Large Databases. As usual, it is a well thought through post from someone who is probably scarred for life from actually working with large databases. In a data warehouse (or even a very large transactional system) context the reader is lead to an inevitability of [...]

A while back it was quite feasible to draw circles around discrete databases in an organisation’s IT structure and say ‘this is the data warehouse, here is the billing system and that is the blinkity-boo system. But now those circles are pretty defuse. It is harder to differentiate between where document storage diverges from data [...]

Over on Doug Burn’s blog there is a link to an interesting piece on large disks. Some people would think that the data warehousing community would welcome large disks. But probably for the majority (those of us that use conventional relational databases) this is not the case. An exception may be for those people that [...]

Mark Rittman recently posted on the subject of column orientated databases such Sybase IQ and various SAND Technology Inc products. One aspect Mark mentioned was the use of tokens to store attribute data.
In a previous role (before moving back into the mainstream world of Oracle data warehouses) I worked on 'free-text' information systems and in [...]