Ralph Kimball, "The 38 Subsystems Of ETL" [http://www.intelligententerprise.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=O02BH0CP4TINCQSNDBGCKH0CJUMEKJVN?articleID=54200319] : "The extract-transform-load (ETL) system, or more informally, the "back room," is often estimated to consume 70 percent of the time and effort of building a data warehouse. But

I was working with one of our customers last week who was looking at implementing the new OracleBI Discoverer 10g, otherwise known as "Drake". The customer already used Oracle Discoverer Desktop 3i and had previously looked at upgrading to Oracle Application Server 9i Discoverer Plus, but had chosen

I was working with one of our customers last week who was looking at implementing the new OracleBI Discoverer 10g, otherwise known as "Drake". The customer already used Oracle Discoverer Desktop 3i and had previously looked at upgrading to Oracle Application Server 9i Discoverer Plus, but had chosen

If you've got experience with Oracle's BI&W tools and you're looking to work on some of the best and most interesting projects in the UK and Ireland, you might be interested to know that SolStonePlus [http://www.solstoneplus.com] is now hiring.

If you're interested in evaluatingOracle Business Intelligence 10g [http://www.oracle.com/appserver/bi_home.html], one thing you might have missed around the time of the launch was the release of a number of new "Oracle By Example" training courses on these new products. Available

Analytic functions by Example [http://www.orafaq.com/articles/archives/000060.htm] : "This article provides a clear, thorough concept of analytic functions and its various options by a series of simple yet concept building examples. The article is intended for SQL coders, who for might be not be using

Oracle Magazine [http://www.oracle.com/oramag] are running a special feature this month on business intelligence and data warehousing. "Eye On Information : [http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/05-jan/o15eye.html]Business intelligence: It's not just for big enterprises any more. Companies of all sizes

A task I set myself over the Christmas break was to put together an Oracle 10g OLAP demo for one of our customers. Like many of the organisations we've worked with over the years, the customer had a business intelligence solution built on Oracle Express Server technology, and

Things are pretty busy at the moment, with a number of projects about to kick off that use OWB and the new Business Intelligence 10g products. At the current time I'm spending most nights away from home and I've got a number of personal projects on

SPSS Supports Oracle Data Mining [http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=7A2C654B-16D4-4501-968A-7EA91D58E0EA] : "Analytics software firm SPSS Inc has released a new version of its Clementine data mining workbench geared specially for Oracle Corp's 10g relational database system. Chicago, Illinois-based SPPS unveiled the product as a

I finally finished downloading the three Portal and Wireless AS10g Disks earlier today, together with the two Business Intelligence AS10g disks and the Business Intelligence Tools disk. Here's how the installation went. As with AS10g Release 1, I made sure I had around 20GB of free hard disk

If you've an interest in the OLAP Option and you've read some of myrecent [http://www.solstoneplus.com/downloads/white_papers/enable_olap.pdf] articles [http://www.dbazine.com/rittman4.shtml] on the new features in Oracle 10g OLAP, you've probably seen a feature

Concluding my review of 2004, today going from July through to December. July July [http://www.rittman.net/archives/2004_07.html] started with an explanation of Oracle's new Information Architecture [http://www.rittman.net/archives/000973.html], "a model that describes how Oracle's products

It's traditional at this time to do a "review of the year", so here's a look back at this blog during 2004, starting today with January through to June. January January [http://www.rittman.net/archives/2004_01.html] started off with an article

It's almost that time of year again, and in a couple of days we'll be off to Ireland for the Christmas break to stay with Janet's family (Note to burglars - the house has an alarm and the neighbours are in next door) As

Nicholas Goodman [http://www.bayontechnologies.com/bt/blog/] is running another article in hisOracle Warehouse Builder "Paris" early review series [http://www.bayontechnologies.com/bt/blog/archives/2004/09/owb_paris_early.php], this time on thedata profiling feature within "Paris" [http://www.bayontechnologies.com/bt/

The other week I wrote an article on adatabase tuning engagement [http://www.rittman.net/archives/001129.html]I'd been on, and one of the things that I looked at during the visit was a SELECT statements that was being executed in parallel. After running the statement with

"Oracle and Java Stored Procedures", Michael Klaene [http://www.developer.com/db/article.php/10920_3337411_1] : "Beginning with version 8i, the Oracle database includes a fully functional Java Virtual Machine, Oracle JVM. Out of this close relationship between Oracle and Java emerges an important technology for

Lucas Jellema has put together an informative Amis Blog article on aprivate session he'd recently on Enterprise Planning & Budgeting [http://technology.amis.nl/blog/index.php?p=298]. A lot of what's in it I covered in my previous "Under The Covers With Enterprise

If you came along to the Open Word Discoverer "Drake" presentations, or had a look at the presentations and papers available for download, you'll probably have noticed that a major theme for Drake is the provision of BI "Dashboards". Built using Oracle Portal and

One of the major announcements at Open World was forOracle Database 10g Release 2 [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/database/oracle10g/pdf/10gr2_highlights.pdf] . This next release of the Oracle RDBMS isn't likely to be available for download until the middle of 2005, but some initial

Now that I'm back from Open World, there's a chance now to start taking a look through all of the papers and presentationsavailable to download [https://www.openworld2004.com/sf/scheduler/controller/catalog] from the conference website. One of the features of actually being at Open

Wednesday is keynote day, and I mentioned before [http://www.rittman.net/archives/001157.html] that I watched Chuck Rozwat's and Scott McNealy's keynotes from speaker room as I frantically tried to get my AWM10g / Drake demo working again. If you're coming along tomorrow,

[http://www.kinggeorge.com/index1.html]Well, I've arrived in San Francisco now and got settled in to my hotel. I arrived about 2.00pm local time after an 11 hour flight, so had a quick wander around the area local to my hotel, got something to eat

I recently came across some free online training on OWB that anyone looking to get into the product, or bring their product knowledge up to date, might find useful. The training homepage is at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/warehouse/selfserv_edu/self_service_education.html and breaks the