Getting The Users' Trust - Part 2
Last time I wrote about the performance aspects of a BI system and how they could affect a user’s confidence. I concluded by mentioning that »
Getting The Users' Trust - Part 1
Looking back over some of my truly ancient Rittman Mead blogs (so old in fact that they came with me when I joined the company soon »
Oracle 12.1.0.2 and Data Warehouses
If you follow Blogs and Tweets from the Oracle community you won’t have missed hearing about the recent release of the first patch-set for Oracle »
Oracle Enterprise Data Quality Revisited
Recently I have be working with Oracle Enterprise Data Quality (EDQ) combined with Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), we will tell you more about exactly what we »
Thoughts on Using Amazon Redshift as a Replacement for an Oracle Data Warehouse
Recently, my colleague, Pete Carpenter, described a proof of concept we carried out using Amazon Redshift as the data warehouse storage layer in a system capturing »
Using Oracle TimesTen With Oracle BI Applications (Part 3)
In part 2 I introduced TimesTen Columnar Compression and explained that it creates-column value look up tables so a longer data value can be replaced with »
Using Oracle TimesTen With Oracle BI Applications (Part 2)
Last time I posted an introductory blog to this series of posts on using Oracle TimesTen with Oracle BI Applications (OBIA). Today, I am going to »
Using Oracle TimesTen With Oracle BI Applications (Part 1)
Oracle BI Applications (OBIA) is a product for delivering industry best-practice dashboards and analysis over enterprise sources such as ERP, HR, SCM and CRM systems. OBIA »
You Probably Need Parallel Except When You Don't
My last post looked at some aspects of performance tuning that would make traditional DBAs blanche with horror, not once did I mention indexing, partitioning, PCTFREE »
Tuning Philosophy - Tuning the Right Thing
My second presentation at this year's RMOUG Training Days was on tuning "realtime data warehouses"; as usual, this paper is now on the Rittman »