Becky's BI Apps Corner: Incrementals and Future Dated Employee Records
During the last few posts, we have delved into a few of the many interesting aspects of a BI Apps installation. Today I wanted to change »
GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator - A Perfect Match... Part 3: Real-time ETL Challenges
I've finally had the chance to sit down and properly closeout this series on GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator. Since the last post, I’ve actually »
New White Paper on Cube Organized Materialized Views
I noticed on the Oracle OLAP blog the other day that a new white paper on Cube Organized Materialized Views has been uploaded to OTN. If »
Migrating OBIEE Logical Models to use a Data Warehouse : Part 3
In the final part of my series on migrating an OBIEE installation from direct application access to a data warehouse, I'm finally going to plug my »
Migrating OBIEE Logical Models to use a Data Warehouse : Part 2
In yesterdays posting, I took a look at some of the practicalities behind my recent article on OBIEE "next-generation" architectures. The idea behind this architecture is »
Migrating OBIEE Logical Models to use a Data Warehouse : Part 1
A couple of weeks ago I posted an article about a next-generation Oracle BI architecture, where I advocated building a first cut OBIEE system against your »
Indexing the unusual
For many years I had an interest in non-standard indexing and exotic data types, that is things that weren't NUMBER or VARCHAR2. In fact before I »
Data Warehouses are not dead, yet
One of the reasons that I left my old job to work with Rittman Mead Consulting was to get back to technology. Don't get this wrong, »
OLAP and summary management
So, why is someone who normally writes about data warehouses going to talk about Oracle OLAP, and in particular, cube organized materialized views? I could run »