Mark Rittman

One of the things I most enjoy about my job is the variety of assignments. Since the start of this year, I've been teaching OBIEE to partners, customers and Oracle consultants in Prague, running a five day OWB workshop for a software development house in the UK, doing

One of our clients called me in today to run an OBIEE workshop. They have a number of Microsoft Analysis Services cubes that they'd like to report on using OBIEE, and if possible they'd like to combine this summary-level data with some more detailed data in

One of the new features in OWB 11g (and back-ported to OWB 10.2.03) is support for DML Error Logging. DML Error Logging is a database feature introduced with Oracle 10gR2 that lets you add a LOG ERRORS clause to your DML statement, so that DML operations that would

[http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/rittman-biee-soa.html] If anyone's wondering why there's been so few postings on the blog over the past couple of months, it's mainly because I've been writing some longish articles for OTN and Oracle Mag on

Well, this must just about be the longest stretch of time between a blog post in the last couple of years. After the Christmas break and a trip with the family to Egypt, I'm finally back in action and raring to go. Christmas was a bit of a

Well, the presents are wrapped, the cards are sent and the turkey is stuffed, but before we close down for the Christmas break I thought it worth coming up with a Top Ten Oracle BI&DW Events of 2007. Starting from ten and working down to one, and with

The latest edition of Oracle Magazine [http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/08-jan/index.html] comes with a new article by myself and Joel Crisp on Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition and Oracle Identity Management. Entitled "Intelligence and Identity" [http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/08-jan/

A quick posting on two BI-related conferences that are currently accepting abstracts for presentations but due to close soon. The UK Oracle User Group is holding a Business Intelligence & Performance Management Special Event [http://www.ukoug.org/calendar/show_events.jsp?year=2008&month=03&day=18]

Over the past few days I've been taking a closer look at how query rewrite works with the new 11g release of Oracle OLAP. As a quick recap, in Oracle 11g you can now use OLAP analytic workspaces as summaries within your data warehouse, with Oracle now able

One of the questions I always get asked during my BI seminars is how you migrate OBIEE requests and dashboards from one Web Catalog to another. The context of this is usually that you're putting your project into production, or test or whatever, you've migrated the

A demo I've seen at several Oracle events over the past year is one where ApEx (Application Express) is linked in with Oracle OLAP. The idea is that the charting and reporting capability of ApEx is used against the SQL views over an Analytic Workspace, giving you the

I'm sitting up in the speaker lounge at the UKOUG Conference, getting thing sorted out for my "Advanced Development Techniques with Oracle BI EE Plus" masterclass later this afternoon. After the fourth night out in a row - last night with Dimitri Gellis and Jon Scott

I'm currently sitting in the lobby area of the Jurys Inn hotel, having just missed the 9.30am finish of the breakfast service and currently therefore putting together an impromptu breakfast of coffee and custard creams that they've left out. I'm normally up with

A couple of people have asked me where the blogger do [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/11/20/ukoug-2007-blogger-meetup-pitcher-piano-brindley-place-8pm-on-monday-3rd-dec/] is being held tomorrow night - it's at the Pitcher and Piano [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=

Well I've finally arrived in my hotel room in Birmingham for the UKOUG Conference, no jet lag or long flights for me this time as of course this conference is on home turf. The good old British transport system almost got it's revenge though, with a

I've finally got around to updating the events [http://www.rittmanmead.com/events/] page on our website, taking down the old Open World and ODTUG events and uploading details of the UKOUG Conference and some of the engagements already booked in for 2008. One of the events next

One of the big community announcements at Oracle Open World this year was Oracle Mix [http://mix.oracle.com], a sort of cross between Facebook and LinkedIn for Oracle customers and developers. Kent Graziano and I have now set up the Oracle Mix ODTUG BI&DW SIG Group [https:

It seems so soon after Open World, but in a week or so's time the UKOUG annual Conference & Exhibition [http://conference.ukoug.org] is running at the ICC, Birmingham. There's going to be quite a big Rittman Mead contingency at the event, with Jon and

Hot on the heels of the OOW 2007 Blogger Meetup, we're organizing something similar for the UKOUG Conference in Birmingham. It's on Monday, 3rd December at 8pm in the Pitcher & Piano, The Water's Edge, Brindley Place [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&

Now I'm on the flight over to London back from Open World, I've got a few hours spare to take a proper look at the 11g release of Oracle OLAP. In particular I'm trying to find out whether it runs ok without any show-stopper

'm currently sitting in a Starbucks just around the corner from the Hilton, waiting for my pick-up for the drive to SFO. One thing I like to try and do after a major conference like Open World is have a think about what the announcements and activity meant for