If I would need this feature I would probably invest a lot of time trying to find out an answer. But funny enough I found out by mistake and as it might be useful to someone else I have just decide to publish this short blog post. Application Process on

Well, to be precise, our blog is hosted on Ghost, and we have just upgraded to version 5.0 which includes search, see here. 0:00/1× What does this mean? Well, now you don't have to use external search engines to find pages on the Rittman Mead blog, you

I looked into Social Sign-in as an option for Oracle APEX a few years ago. This was pre APEX 18.1 and, at this time, it was not simple to configure (in fact it would have taken a considerable amount of code to implement) Fortunately, since 18.1 APEX offers

23% of UK workers are considering ditching WFH to save on heating bills!!! Was the title of a news article that appeared on my phone at the end of August. Back then, and I say back then because the rate at which things are changing in the UK make a

Introduction One of the most common pitfalls in data science is investing too much time investigating a dead-end. It happens to the best of us; you're convinced that you've found something amazing and profound that will revolutionise the client's business intelligence...And then, in an awkward presentation to a senior

OAC Semantic Modeler features native version control with Git

There are a few reasons to like the Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) paired with the new Semantic Modeler: * It works in the cloud. I mean, it actually works. (Check my blog post [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2022/07/giving-oac-semantic-modeller-a-try/] for an overview of Semantic Modeler.) * It has a native,

Kids just love it when old folk go on about good old days. The particular good old days I have in mind is when Oracle CRM On Demand was released. Competition in the Cloud CRM space was tough but the Oracle product had one trick up its sleeve: its data

Last week I attended the second Oracle Analytics Summit at Skywalker Ranch [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skywalker_Ranch]. The last Summit was in 2019 and attended by Jon Mead and he summarised the experience here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2019/07/oracle-analytics-summit-2019/]. The purpose of the event is

A while ago I blogged about our Lineage Tool [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2022/04/introducing-rittman-mead-lineage-tool/] , which back then was limited to diving into the ODI Work Repository and emerging from it with source-to-target data flow diagrams. The task at hand was simple and the design straightforward: show Source

Generating Informatica PowerCenter Content - the Options In our blogs we have discussed the options for Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) content generation here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2021/03/sql2odi-part-one-convert-a-simple-select-statement-to-an-odi-mapping/] and here [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2017/03/accelerating-your-odi-implementation-rittmanmead-style/] . Our go-to method is to use the ODI Java

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