Rittman Mead Life Rittman Mead at Oracle OpenWorld 2016 The big show is upon us and once again Rittman Mead will be actively participating at [Oracle OpenWorld 2016](https://www.oracle.com/openworld/index.html" target="_blank). Oracle's premier conference runs September 18–22 at the Moscone Center in beautiful San Francisco, California. I'm looking forward to
Technical Rittman Mead at KScope16 June is the perfect month: summer begins, major football (and futbol) tournaments are in full swing, and of course, KScope16 is on! Rittman Mead have participated in many of the past KScope conferences and will continue that tradition this year with a wide range of presentation and training topics across
Big Data Rittman Mead at Collaborate 16: Data Integration Focus It’s that time of year again when Oracle technologists from around the world gather in Las Vegas, Nevada, to teach, learn, and, of course, network with their peers. The Collaborate 16 conference, running for 10 years now, has been a collaboration, if you will, between the Independent Oracle Users
Technical Using Streams with ODI12c for Oracle-to-Oracle Change Data Capture Although Oracle GoldenGate replaced Oracle Streams a couple of years ago as the recommended data replication and change data capture technology for Oracle databases, many customers still on Oracle Database 11gR2 or earlier still use Streams for Oracle-to-Oracle change data capture as it works and compared to GoldenGate doesn’t
Technical Practical Tips for Oracle BI Applications 11g Implementations As with any product or technology, the more you use it the more you learn about the "right" way to do things. Some of my experiences implementing Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 11g have led me to compile a few tips that will improve the overall process for installation
Technical GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator - A Perfect Match in 12c... Part 4: Start Journalizing! In this post, the finale of the four-part series "GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator - A Perfect Match in 12c", I'll walk through the setup of the ODI Models and start journalizing in "online" mode. This will utilize our customized JKM to build the GoldenGate parameter
Technical GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator - A Perfect Match in 12c... Part 3: Setup Journalizing After a short vacation, some exciting news, and a busy few weeks (including KScope14 in Seattle, WA), it's time to get the "GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator - A Perfect Match in 12c" blog series rolling again. Hopefully readers can find some time between World Cup matches to
Technical Data Integration Tips: GoldenGate on RAC - Action Script for Windows I want to briefly interrupt my blog series on GoldenGate and ODI - A Perfect Match in 12c... to provide another Data Integration Tip that was found during a recent client engagement. I was tasked with installing GoldenGate 11g into a 2-node RAC, which is a pretty straight-forward process and
Technical GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator - A Perfect Match in 12c... Part 2: Journalizing Knowledge Module This is the second post in a blog series on the integration between Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) 12c and GoldenGate 12c. The first post focused on the latest, yet-to-be-released, Oracle Information Management Reference Architecture and some high-level features new to the 12c versions of each product. We also began working
Technical GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator - A Perfect Match in 12c... Part 1: Getting Started Over the years, I've blogged quite a bit about integration between Oracle Data Integrator and GoldenGate, and how to make it all work with the Oracle Reference Architecture. With the release of the 12c versions of ODI and GoldenGate last October, and a soon-to-be-updated reference architecture, it’s time to
Technical Oracle BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 – GoldenGate Integration - Part 4: Initial Load and Replication This is the final post in my series on Oracle BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 and GoldenGate Integration. If you have been following along up to this point, we have the Source Dependent Data Store schema setup and ready to accept data from the OLTP source via replication,
Technical Oracle BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 – GoldenGate Integration - Part 3: SDS and Parameter File Setup This is the third post in the four part series on Oracle BI Applications 11.1.1.7.1 and Oracle GoldenGate 11g. Last time, we made it through the initial setup of GoldenGate and created the necessary schemas for the Source Dependent Data Store (SDS) and GoldenGate on the
Technical Oracle GoldenGate 12c - New Release, New Features The latest release of Oracle's data replication tool, GoldenGate 12c, has many improvements. The release coincided with the Oracle Data Integrator 12c release - and I wasn't about to let my colleague Jérôme Françoisse have all of the fun describing new features! This post will walk through the GoldenGate 12c
Technical Oracle BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 – GoldenGate Integration - Part 2: Setup and Configuration In my previous post, I introduced the steps necessary for integrating Oracle BI Applications 11.1.1.7.1 and GoldenGate (OGG). Now, I'm going to dive into the details and describe how to complete the setup and configuration of GoldenGate and the Source Dependent Data Store schema. As I
Technical Oracle BI Apps 11.1.1.7.1 – GoldenGate Integration - Part 1: Introduction The release of Oracle Business Intelligence Applications 11.1.1.7.1 includes a major change in components, with Oracle Data Integrator replacing Informatica as the ETL application. The next logical step was to integrate Oracle’s data replication tool, Oracle GoldenGate, for a real-time load of source system data
Technical 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 presented this topic on three different occasions. Once at each of the Rittman Mead BI Forums, in both Brighton and Atlanta, as a part
Technical GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator - A Perfect Match... Part 2: Replicate to Staging and Foundation It has been quite a hectic month since my last post, GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator – A Perfect Match Part 1: Introduction. Plenty of client work and delivery of two ODI 11g Bootcamp training courses have kept me busy. In the previous post, I described how the Oracle Reference Data
Technical GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator - A Perfect Match... Part 1: Introduction Last week, I was in Denver, Colorado presenting at the Rocky Mountain Oracle Users Group Training Days conference. This was my first time at the RMOUG conference and I have to say, with the number of great topics being presented during any given session time, I hope to see the
Technical Alternatives to the Summary Advisor for Refreshing Exalytics Aggregates One of the several elements of Exalytics' power comes from it holding pre-calculated (aggregated) data in the TimesTen for Exalytics In-Memory Database. Exalytics comes with a tool called the Summary Advisor (which Mark Rittman has written about previously here) which suggests aggregates to build based on the reports which have
