Mark Rittman

Things are going to be a bit quiet around here for the next few weeks, as I'm going to have to take a break from blogging for a while. Mainly, this is because I'm starting a new job withinPlus [http://www.plusconsultancy.co.uk/] that means

Niall Litchfield [http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com/archive/2004_07_01_archives#109083087843019133] : "I have also this morning uploaded a quick how to onSetting Up Generic Connectivity [http://www.niall.litchfield.dial.pipex.com/WhitePapers/SettingUpGenericConnectivity.pdf] . This document is a step by stem guide to Oracle&

> Computerworld.co.nz: [http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/0/770F851F19507BE7CC256EDC00750C93?OpenDocument] "... Wohl also said that Oracle is enhancing its daily business intelligence capabilities, an architectural feature embedded in the suite that allows managers to get quick updates on business performance. To make the feature more appealing, Oracle

"Though critical to the success of information technology, nontechnical factors often go unnoticed. Industry voices frequently alert us to the more common nontechnical pitfalls: inadequate executive sponsorship, failed management of user expectations, and unrealistic project scope. But there's one more thing and it has little to do

A couple of projects that I've worked on recently had chosen Oracle Warehouse Builder overInformatica's Powercenter [http://www.informatica.com/products/powercenter/default.htm]. It was interesting therefore to see a new article by Rajan Chandras thatlooked at the latest version of Powercenter [http://www.intelligententerprise.

Following on from Customer Data Hub [http://www.rittman.net/archives/000762.html], Oracle have just announced that Product Data Hub will be available in 2005. According to James Niccolai for IDG News Service [http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/19/HNibmoracleaiminfomgmt_1.html], "Meanwhile, Oracle also plans

One of our customers recently asked me about the best way to manage multiple environments when using OWB. The customer had a development environment, together with test, QA and of course production, and wanted to know how to set up their design and runtime repositories. Do we create separate design

I must admit I've only just come across this, but it looks interesting anyway. "Oracle XML Data Synthesis (XDS)" [http://otn.oracle.com/tech/xml/xds/index.html] is "designed to solve the problem of accessing disparate information sources like package applications (Oracle 11i, SAP,

"In striving to achieve customer intimacy, the idea that someone else can know your customers better than you do seems somewhat oxymoronic. Can someone else know your customers better than you? For years, the answer to this has always been "no." Your organization's analytic needs

If you've been to an Oracle technology day recently, or read some of thearticles in Oracle Magazine [http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/04-may/o34cover_feature.html] or onAppsNet [http://www.oracle.com/appsnet/technology/ia/content.html], you'll probably have heard about "Oracle Information

"Whether or not Oracle wins its hostile takeover of PeopleSoft, one thing is for sure: Larry Ellison is acquisition hungry." reports Michael Singer [http://internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3372331] for InternetNews.com. "But the motivation for doing so may not be to battle top-tier market leader

If you read my posting the other week aboutstreamlining Oracle 9i ETL with pipelined table functions [http://www.rittman.net/archives/000923.html], you might be interesting in a related article for DatabaseJournal entitled"Using Cursor Variables As Function Arguments on Oracle 9i" [http://www.databasejournal.com/features/

Wondering what the 'Instant Client' option was on the Oracle Database 10g install CD? James Koopman explains all in "Instant Client in Oracle 10g" [http://www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3371561] for DatabaseJournal. "Wouldn't it be nice if you didn'

"A couple weeks back, we brought word that Oracle planned to make a JavaOne splash by acquiring Collaxa and that is exactly what the company has done today. Oracle has secured Collaxa's business process management software for an undisclosed sum. The deal has seen Collaxa's

Interesting discussion going on at Slashdot onSQL, XML, and the Relational Database Model [http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/28/1728204&mode=nested&tid=126] . "In an article onDBAzine [http://www.dbazine.com/index.shtml], Fabian Pascal writes that SQL is not a good

[http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/04-jul/index.html]There's a couple good articles in thenew issue of Oracle Magazine [http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/04-jul/index.html]. "Perform Without Waiting" [http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/04-jul/o44tech_perf.html] by Arup Nanda looks

John Topley [http://www.johntopley.com/index.html] is putting together a series of articles that teach the basics of Jakarta Struts development [http://www.johntopley.com/archive/2004/06/23/index.html], using Oracle JDeveloper as the IDE. Entitled "Jakarta Struts De-Mystified", John introduces the series as:

One or two people have mentioned to me that it's sometimes difficult to find content on this site after it's been published, so with this in mind I've reworked some of the site navigation to make things easier to find. It's work

Well there you go. Only the other day [http://www.rittman.net/archives/000945.html] I was talking about there not being an application front-end for Oracle Data Mining, and now Oracle go and release one. Oracle Data Miner is a new end-user application for Oracle Data Mining 10g that

Controversial bit of news from Oracle on the forthcoming10g OCP DBA [http://www.oracle.com/education/certification/index.html?dba10g_ocp.html] certification path.Certcities reports that [http://www.certcities.com/editorial/news/story.asp?EditorialsID=641] Oracle are reducing the exam requirement for the 10g OCP DBA to just

If you've got an interest in Oracle performance tuning, you'll probably have seen references to something called event 10046. Event 10046 is an undocumented, but well known feature within the Oracle database that generates detailed information on how a statement is parsed, what the values of

"Did you know that Oracle's "Scott" schema is slated for the bone yard? How many thousands of people have learned SQL, SQL*Plus, and PL/SQL on the back of poor old Scott? I would venture to say that the current generation of Oracle DBAs

There's an interesting technical note available on OTN on invoking OWB processes or mappings as web services [http://otn.oracle.com/products/warehouse/sdk/web_services/owb_code_as_web_service.html] . Traditionally, OWB mappings and processes are run using the OWB deployment manager, SQL*Plus (using the

Oracle's Sergio Leunissen has started a blog onHTML DB tips, tricks and examples [http://www.orablogs.com/sergio/]. Sergio is one of the product team behind HTMDB and I met him, and Joel Kallman, at one of the HTMLDB developer days earlier this year in Reading. Sergio kindly

"Many articles have been written about the use of PL/SQL vs. Java."writes Dave Moore [http://www.oracleutilities.com/] in"Java vs. PL/SQL: Where Do I Put the SQL?" [http://www.dbazine.com/moore2.shtml]. "These articles tend to focus on the intricacies