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As data becomes increasingly available in the world today the need to organise and understand it also increases. Since 80% of data out there is in unstructured format, text mining becomes an extremely valuable practice for organisations to generate helpful insights and improve decision-making. So, I decided to experiment with

It started well… we left the pontoon in strong winds and heavy rain. Before the start of Fastnet everybody has to sail past an entry gate with storm sails or equivalent flying. The winds were strong enough to sail with them and a bit of engine assist so we enjoyed

Part one. In 2002 my wife Val and I decided to buy our first yacht. We lived in the Brighton so it seemed to make sense. In 2005 we replaced our first boat with a Sigma 400. A Sigma is a well made boat so it seemed logical she needed

The Rittman Mead's Sql2Odi tool that converts SQL SELECT statements to ODI Mappings, now supports the SQL WITH statement as well. (For an overview of our tool's capabilities, please refer to our blog posts here and here.) The Case for WITH StatementsIf a SELECT statement is complex, in particular if

First of all, what is it? Essentially, it’s a cashback scheme. For every Dollar, Pound, Yen, Euro you spend moving to OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure), Oracle will give you 25% off your annual support bill. It’s a great incentive for cloud adoption and has the potential to wipe

Now that we are nicely settled into 2021 (Happy New Year, by the way!), it's time to roll our sleeves up and take a look at the latest release from the Oracle Analytics team: Oracle Analytics Cloud 5.9. Whenever a new release arrives, there is often a clamour for