Mark Rittman

I'm just sitting in the departure lounge at Dublin Airport, waiting for my flight back to London Gatwick; I've been doing the BI Masterclass over at Oracle's offices at Eastpoint over the last couple of days, and I'm running it again tomorrow

A couple of weeks ago I wrote an article ("Oracle BI and SOA - Hype or Here Now?" [http://www.rittman.net/2006/10/30/oracle-bi-soa-hype-or-here-now/]) that looked at the role Service-Orientated Architecture will have on the world of Oracle BI developers. Since then I've been

A quick update on the Discoverer 10.1.2.2.0 article [http://www.rittman.net/2006/11/13/checking-out-the-new-discoverer-101220-features/] I wrote earlier this week, where I mentioned that database patch 5146470 mentioned as a requirement in the documentation isn't actually available for Windows. At the time I

UPDATE: Well, what can I say. Thanks to Nick Goodman, Rahul Argawal, Scott Gruber, Peter K, and in particular Andy C, we've been able to recover a large number of the most requested or most interesting articles in less than a day. Many, many thanks to all of

I'm back now from the UKOUG Conference in Birmingham, and as my wife is now away for the weekend, it's my turn to look after the kids for a few days - which is quite nice actually, as I'm away all next week doing

Well... a couple of people mentioned to me today that my website was down. Fine, I thought, there's sometimes a glitch with the hosted server, and if I just raise a support ticket they'll restart the mySQL server or at worst, restore from a backup. Except.

If you were reading this blog a month or so ago, you may well have seen a posting about Oracle's purchase of Sunopsis [http://www.rittman.net/2006/10/11/oracle-buy-sunopsis/]. Sunopsis [http://www.sunopsis.com] are a French company with offices around the world that specializes in

Just a short reminder that I'm running my BI Masterclass seminars, organized by Oracle University, at Dublin and Reading later this month. Here's the links to the local Oracle Education websites where you can book a place: * November 21st - 22nd 2006 : "Oracle Business Intelligence

I just happened to check out the dashboard on my wordpress installation and noticed a trackback [http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/virtual-columns-11g/] from Jonathan Lewis' new blog [http://jonathanlewis.wordpress.com/]. I bumped into Jonathan in the lobby of the King George last week and he mentioned

Yesterday was the Business Intelligence CAB meeting, which consisted of a number of presentations to BI customers and partners on Oracle's ongoing product direction. As it's all under an NDA I can't go in to most of it, but one presentation that I can

An early night for me for once, as I'm back now from the Oracle Press event and catching up with the last few presentations of the day. In the end I went to the Server Technology Beta Program event, then the Oracle Press event, and I got a

I've just come out of the "What's New with Oracle Business Intelligence 10.1.3.2" presentation by David Granholm, and there's a bunch of new details on what's coming up with this new release. I should say that, as

I woke up this morning with the mother of all hangovers after spending the evening in an Irish Bar [http://www.flickr.com/photos/markrittman/278528765/] around the corner from the Moscone, but at least my bag was still with me with my laptop still in it. Compared to leaving

Tonight was the night that we organized our second annual Oracle Open World blogger meetup, this time at the Thirsty Bear bar next door to the Moscone. For a variety of reasons I've ended up in the Thirsty Bear every night since I've been here (and

This afternoon I firstly went along to Kurt Wolff's "Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Tips & Tricks" presentation, followed afterwards by Paul Rodwick's "Oracle BI Roadmap" session. Kurt is one of the original nQuire guys and has worked with what is now

This afternoon I firstly went along to Kurt Wolff's "Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Tips & Tricks" presentation, followed afterwards by Paul Rodwick's "Oracle BI Roadmap" session. Kurt is one of the original nQuire guys and has worked with what is now

Just a short reminder that we're holding an Oracle Blogger meetup at the Thirsty Bear bar and restaurant, from 7.00pm onwards on Tuesday, October 24th. If you've got an Oracle blog, please feel free to come along, we'll be there from 7.00pm

Yesterday was arrivals day at Oracle Open World, with my flight getting in around 1pm and arrival at the King George Hotel around an hour later. Although I said to myself two years ago that I'd never stay in the King George again (I remember having to phone