New Oracle Magazine Article On Business Intelligence

Oracle Magazine are running a special feature this month on business intelligence and data warehousing. "Eye On Information : Business intelligence: It's not just for big enterprises any more. Companies of all sizes and shapes are implementing BI systems or BI-enabling their applications to learn more about their business, cut costs, and improve efficiencies.". An interesting article that looks at some of the new data warehousing features in 10g (asynchronous change data capture, faster full table scans, ASM, Grid and so on) and has a section on using spatial data to predict sales.

Taking a look through the rest of the issue there's an article by Steven Feuernstein on Refactoring for PL/SQL Developers, one by Caroline Kvitka on XQuery and what looks o be an interesting one by Tom Kyte on safe injections (?), comparing tables, and materialized views.