It's just a few weeks now until the user group event of the year, the UK Oracle User Group Conference & Exhibition 2009 [http://conference.ukoug.org]. This year, as well as presenting at the conference we will have a stand in the exhibition hall [http://conference.ukoug.

I've been meaning to post this for a couple of months now, but we've recently grown our team at Rittman Mead and taken on two new Principal Consultants, Jennifer Albu and Ragnar Wessels, bringing our consulting team [http://www.rittmanmead.com/about/our-team/] up to six

One conference that I won't be going to, but I really wish I was, is the second Oracle BIWA Summit [http://ioug.itconvergence.com/pls/htmldb/f?p=219:25:1610458228956689::NO:::] on December 2nd and 3rd 2008 at Redwood Shores, California. The Oracle BIWA SIG [http://www.

ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009 [http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com/] is being held next June in Monterey, California, and the call for papers [http://www.odtugkaleidoscope.com/abstracts.html] closes on November 3rd. If you're thinking about putting an abstract in, there's just a few days left now. ODTUG

Well, I've just realized that for the first time in what must be six months, I've not got any course material, presentations, articles or blog posts to write. Today was the last day of our inaugural BI Training Days event, and now that the event has

I'm pleased to announce that, at the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards [http://www.ukoug.org/communities/show_community.jsp?id=1401&parent=771] last week in London, Rittman Mead Consulting won the Business Intelligence Partner of the Year category. Thank you, all the UKOUG members

One of the new things that shipped with the OBIEE 10.1.3.4 release was a new set of sample data, and a set of reports and dashboards that show off the more advanced features of OBIEE. If you download and install OBIEE now, this is the sample set

I'm traveling over to Philadelphia later this week to speak at the Philadelphia Oracle Users Group evening on October 16th, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004 [http://www.ioug.org/events/calendar/Display_Day.cfm?date=10/16/2008]. My presentation is entitled "A Future Oracle BI&DW

The other day I posted about the query log file generated by the Oracle BI Server [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2008/10/02/digging-into-the-oracle-bi-server-query-log-file/], and how you could use it to add diagnostics to your query environment. Scott Powell added a comment to the posting suggesting that I take

... is on Wednesday October 8th [http://www.ukoug.org/calendar/show_event.jsp?id=3349]. Mark will be speaking and I will be there with the Rittman Mead  stand, so if you are at the meeting just come up and say "hello". This is the last BIRT SIG

As a follow-up to the posting I did last week on Oracle BI Enterprise Edition performance tuning, I thought I'd take a closer look a the query log file generated by the Oracle BI Server, the "virtual database engine" that ships with Oracle BI EE. For

Something that we've been working on in the background recently, and are now able to announce, are the first of our Oracle BI Training Days running in London from October 22nd to the 24th, 2008 [http://www.rittmanmead.com/oracle-bi-training-days-october-22nd-24th-london-uk/] . If you're a developer using Oracle&

Open World ended yesterday, and today I took a trip down the peninsula to Oracle's headquarters at Redwood Shores. I actually got the train [http://www.caltrain.com/] down rather than hire a car, as I thought it'd be more interesting to get public transport rather

Today was the final day at Open World, with a number of sessions on the new Exadata Storage Server and the Oracle Database Machine data warehouse appliance, together with the Oracle ACE Directors' Birds of a Feather Panel Session kindly organized by Lewis Cunningham. In the end we had

I'm just catching up now on my Open World notes, as I'm staying for an extra day to go to Redwood Shores tomorrow for a meeting with the OWB product development team. Wednesday (Day 4) was my first day without any presentations, and with Larry'

So, the mystery "X" product was a database / data warehouse appliance, using HP Hardware and a custom storage server that takes predicates provided by the database and filters the data locally, returning just the results / columns back to the database rather than whole blocks of data. Oracle enters

15.54 Right, that's it. Everyone's going to the demogrounds now, there's a couple of machines on show. Now, where's Kevin Closson [http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/] so I can ask him how it all works, and Curt Monash [http://www.dbms2.com/

Now that's more like it. After I mentioned that there didn't appear to be much new BI information at this year's Open World, I went to a session by Matt Bedin on "New Technologies in Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition" whilst Thomas

Day 2 of Oracle Open World 2008 started off with Charles Phillips and Chuck Rozwat's keynote setting out, at a high level, all the innovations around the various product lines over the past year. There wasn't anything around BI in the session, it was mostly around