First Seminar in Melbourne Well that's the first one done then, and I'm pleased to say I think it went fairly well. The event was held at a training centre just a couple of blocks away from my hotel, just over the river, and I bumped into one of the
Arrived in Melbourne Just a quick posting before I wander over to the training center for the first seminar. I arrived in Melbourne yesterday morning about 9.30am, about 30 hours since I left Heathrow on Friday. This is the second time I've been in Australia, and again I can'
Technical OBIEE Dimensional Data Modeling Redux Several months ago I wrote a blog post [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/06/19/obiee-data-modeling-tips-1-integrating-1-1-and-1-many-source-tables/] on pulling together an Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition business model from a normalized data source. At the time I was working through in my own mind how best to join different data
Landed in Auckland, On My Way to Melbourne It's just before 6am on Sunday morning, and I'm sitting in the departures lounge at Auckland Airport waiting for my final flight through to Melbourne. My journey started off on Friday morning with a train trip up to London, then across to Heathrow for my initial
Reasons to review data warehouse health A few weeks ago I was chatting to someone about 'health checks' for data warehouses and the sort of reason that data warehouse owners might have for commissioning them. We came up with three fundamental reasons: * doubts about the current system * fitness for future enhancement * an as check
Technical Managing multiple Presentation Services on the same Unix box As I had mentioned, I wanted to write up a bit on how to go about setting up multiple Oracle BI presentation services, each configured to access a different repository file (RPD) running on the BI Server. The thing is that you can easily set up the BI server so
Upcoming BI Seminars in Europe A quick advert for some forthcoming Enterprise BI Seminars in Sweden [http://www.oracle.com/global/se/education/eblast/se_mark_rittman_bi_seminar_october_240807_ol.html] , Hungary [http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/show_desc.redirect?dc=D48573_946979&p_org_id=8&lang=HU&
Technical More on the 9.2 to 10.2 upgrade But first. It's good to see that two bloggers in the Washington DC area are back on-line. Welcome back Tom [http://tkyte.blogspot.com/] and Sponge [http://oraclesponge.wordpress.com/] A few posts ago I mentioned [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/08/31/upgrading-to-10g-ok-im-a-bit-behind/] my final 9
On Relational Databases and Column-Based Storage "Are Relational Databases Obsolete?" [http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/06/1527258] asks Slashdot, pointing to this article [http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId=9034619] by Michael Stonebraker in Computerworld. Oh no I think, here we go again, another article
Technical Integrating BI Publisher and Discoverer The other day I wrote about the first of the integration features between Oracle BI Suite Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition in my article "Integrating Oracle Answers and Oracle Portal" [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/09/07/integrating-oracle-bi-answers-and-oracle-portal/]. Today, I'm going to take a look
Summer is over Well, not that summer actually ever arrived here in Belgium. It's been quite the opposite of last summer, which was very hot and sunny. So I guess in average my two first summers here were OK., right? But the summer did bring me some changes. For the last
Integrating Oracle BI Answers and Oracle Portal One bit of feedback I received after running my last BI seminar, was that people were interested in interoperability between the new BIEE tools and the Standard Edition tools they were currently using. Whilst most people were keen to hear about what’s new, the reality is that they need
Technical Meetings and other stuff First up in this hotch-potch (or is it hodge-podge?) is a reminder of a BI meeting in London in a few weeks time; Tuesday September 25 in fact. The UKOUG BIRT SIG meeting [http://ukoug.org/calendar/show_event.jsp?id=2895] (wasn't BIRT SIG a Punk Rocker?
Looking Forward to the BIWA Summit I've been "heads-down" working up in Canary Wharf over the last month (with Adrian Billington [http://www.oracle-developer.net/] actually, which has been a pleasure) and in my spare time putting seminar and course material together, but one thing that's kept me going is
Technical Upgrading to 10g - OK, I'm a bit behind At long last, my final data warehouse customer on Oracle 9 is moving on to 10g. It has been a somewhat protracted move as for reasons of vendor support certification we had to adopt a specific order of refreshing their whole technology stack. That's not to say we
Normality resumes, soon This year holiday activities have been low key. My elder daughter had various school examination results to receive (for those who know about the English system, GCSEs and AS levels) which basically meant that we needed to be home two Thursdays in August. Coupled with the need to work on
Technical Open World, BIWA, UKOUG and Oracle Mag Things have been a bit quiet on the blog recently, as Jon and I have taken a bit of leave and I've been working on a couple of articles for Oracle. As well as the articles, Jon and I are also due to present at a number of
Technical Reading time - Oracle 11g There you are - I've mentioned it. But I have not downloaded it yet. One of the things I do with any new release is to read some (no, not all) of the documentation. The new features documentation, of course, is a given and enough of the of
Technical Moving partition statistics Over in another place [http://oracledoug.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/1306-Full-Volume-Database-Refresh-Part-3.html] , Doug Burns has been writing on the joys of reproducing a full size database as test instance. He has even (graciously) put up with my wittering about things that not relevant to his articles. So as not
UKOUG 2007 abstract just got accepted Last Friday I got an email from the UKOUG Events Team informing me that my abstract, titled "Implementing Access Control for the new Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition" has just been accepted for the UKOUG 2007 [http://www.ukoug.com/] conference in Birmingham, come December. I got a
A grey day Arrived in the office this morning and glanced towards the window; it was that sort of heavy grey light, the sort you see just before a heavy winter's snowstorm. Then I realised that the warehouse being constructed next to my office building had been clad over the weekend
Technical Oracle Partitioning 2007 I see that Oracle have posted [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/oracle11g/index.html] a series of white papers on the soon to arrive 11g release, the one on partitioning [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/bi/db/11g/pdf/partitioning-11g-whitepaper.pdf] caught my eye. But first an
Technical Fake Larry Ellison Starts Blogging If like me you're a Mac owner who's been following with interest the Fake Steve Jobs [http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/] blog (try here [http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2006/12/so-ibmers-came-to-visit.html], here [http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/2006/08/dude-you-make-it-too-easy.html]and here [http://fakesteve.blogspot.com/
Update on the First of the New BI Masterclasses Oracle University in London ran the first of my new Enterprise Business Intelligence Masterclasses last week, where we focused on the use of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition alongside enterprise software and identity management tools. We had a good turnout and as usual Oracle did a good job in terms
It rains down in Africa As Mark Rittman announced last week, I have just started collaborating with Rittman Mead Consulting. As a direct result I am now sitting in my hotel room in Lagos, Nigeria after the second day of running the Oracle BI EE Masterclass for a client. This is the first time that
