Rittman Mead Blog - Oracle GoldenGate

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 [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2013/02/goldengate-and-oracle-data-integrator-a-perfect-match-part-1/] . Plenty of client work and delivery of two ODI 11g Bootcamp training [http://www.rittmanmead.com/training/trn-403-odi-11g-bootcamp/] courses have

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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 [http://www.rmoug.org/] conference and I have to say, with the number of great topics being presented during any given session time, I

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Rittman Mead BI Forum 2013 Call for Papers now Open!

I'm pleased to announce that the call for papers for the 5th annual Rittman Mead BI Forum is now open, with abstracts being accepted through to January 31st, 2013. Last year's BI Forum was the biggest and best ever, running in Brighton, UK and Atlanta, GA

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BI, Data Warehousing and Data Integration News from Oracle Openworld 2012

This week is Oracle Openworld week in San Francisco, USA [http://www.oracle.com/openworld], with around 50,000 attendees attending Openworld itself, Java One and fringe events such as Oaktable world. Rittman Mead have had ten sessions during the week, covering topics such as OBIEE, Endeca, data warehousing, Essbase

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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) [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/03/oracle-exalytics-week-the-summary-advisor/] which suggests

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Extreme BI: Capturing Change with Oracle GoldenGate and ODI: Part 2 (Implementation)

In my previous post [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2012/04/capturing-change-goldengate-odi-intro], I provided an introduction to the Extreme BI approach to change data capture from Source → Staging Layer and Source → Foundation Layer. I described the Oracle Next-Generation Reference DW Architecture and how we plan to implement an appropriate solution

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Extreme BI: Capturing Change with Oracle GoldenGate and ODI : Part 1 (Introduction)

Before I jump into the first of two posts discussing change data capture with Oracle GoldenGate and Oracle Data Integrator 11g, I would like to first introduce myself. My name is Michael Rainey and I am the newest member of the Rittman Mead America team, joining just last month as

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Realtime Data Warehouses

In a little over two weeks I will be giving my Real Time Data Warehousing talk at Collaborate [http://collaborate10.ioug.org/Education/BIWATrainingDays/tabid/83/Default.aspx] 10 in Las Vegas. I will cover a variety of techniques and not just change data capture. However, in my opinion, CDC