Mark Rittman

A couple of weeks ago I posted an article on using Oracle Warehouse Builder 10gR2 in a production environment [https://www.rittmanmead.com/blog/2007/02/14/running-owb10gr2-in-a-production-environment/]. Since then, I've had the opportunity to spend some time with customers doing just this, and I've come

A quick nod to a few new blogs that I've recently spotted. Simon Ellis [http://fabricoftechnology.blogspot.com/] is someone I've worked with on a couple of projects before, and is a pretty capable technologist and project lead working in the Oracle middleware and architecture space.

Well, this is something I’ve thought about for a while now and now I can mention officially: from March 1st 2007, I’ll be setting up my own company and working as an Independent Consultant, specializing in Oracle Business Intelligence & Data Warehousing solutions. My objective going forward is

I got back from Sweden yesterday evening, and saw from Abhinav's blog [http://oraclebi.blogspot.com/] that Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition 10.1.3.2 (known as the "Maui" release) is now available for download on OTN [http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/htdocs/devlic.

I've been away for a few days, but when I got back tonight I noticed that Oracle Data Integrator, formerly known as Sunopsis Data Conductor and the subject of a number of my blog postings [http://www.rittman.net/category/data_integrator/] late last year, is now available

For anyone in the UK and Ireland who wanted to come along to one of the recent BI Masterclasses, but for whatever reason couldn't make it, you might be interested in a one day event being organized by SolStonePlus in London on January 17th, 2007, at Oracle'

Well over in the UK it's around 5pm on New Year's Eve, and as we went out last night rather than tonight (babysitters) I've got an hour or so spare to look back at what happened in the world of Oracle BI this year,

Well, the turkey's stuffed, the pies are minced and the presents are wrapped. Today was my last day in the office, and apart from a day over the Christmas break when I'll be going in just to get a bit of peace and quiet, that'

It's that time of year again when I start to think about the appraisals for the team I look after. If any of you have completed appraisal forms in the past, you'll know that one of the sections is usually along the lines of "What

I mentioned the other day that a new version of AWM was now available following the release of the 10.2.0.3 patch for Oracle Database 10g. One of the new features that this latest version of AWM comes with is the Sparsity Advisor. I covered the PL/SQL

I just noticed on the OTN OWB Exchange page that four add-on "Experts" are available for Warehouse Builder 10gR2. * the Create Dimension Expert [http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/warehouse/htdocs/Experts/create_dimension_from.zip] , that allows you to create a ROLAP or MOLAP dimension from an

I was reading The Guardian [http://www.guardian.co.uk] on the way up to London yesterday, and I got thinking about what I'd say if I was interviewed for the "My Media" [http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,,1962902,00.html] column (well,

Now this looks interesting. Swivel [http://www.swivel.com/] is a new site that aims to be the "Youtube of data" [http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/12/05/swivel-to-launch-this-week-communitize-your-data/] , with a Flickr-like interface and a means for users to upload interesting sets of data and make them available

Following on from the 10.2.0.3 patch release for Oracle Database 10g [https://updates.oracle.com/ARULink/PatchDetails/process_form?patch_num=5337014&release=80102030&plat_lang=46P&patch_num_id=770577] , Anthony Waite has just informed us that the 10.2.0.3 release

Well, I'm official now. The contracts have been signed and I've been allocated an ISBN number. It won't be out for at least a year from now, but I'm now officially the author for the forthcoming Oracle Press [http://www.oraclepressonline.com/

I'm sitting in the front row of my Austrian Airlines flight back from Vienna, lording it in business class following my seminar over in Zagreb. I don't normally get to fly business class, but I must say it is nice to have a bit of legroom

I'm writing this whilst sitting in the departure lounge at Vienna Airport, and as my flight's been delayed, I thought I'd do the next posting in my "Sunopsis on Oracle" writeup. The other week, I worked through the demo that comes with

I flew in this afternoon to Zagreb airport, and it appears I missed the good weather of a week or so ago to instead arrive during the middle of a particularly foggy patch. I'm staying in the Hotel Antunovic just outside the main part of the city, and

Whilst the most dangerous thing I'll be contemplating tonight will be whether to have the lamb shank or the pan-fried trout in the Reading Moathouse restaurant (or perhaps the healthy option - heh), my old work colleague Jon Mead is daft enough to have signed up to do