Mark Rittman

Even though the new release of Oracle Warehouse Builder has support for the creation of Analytic Workspaces, up until recently I've still been using Analytic Workspace Manager to create them, as it's the tool I'm familiar with and it gets the job done with

OK, so you probably have to be British to get this, and over 30. BT some time ago launched a service [http://www.engadget.com/2006/01/31/let-dr-who-read-your-text-messages/] where you can send an SMS message to a regular BT landline, and the message then gets read out by none

If you're at the UKOUG Conference in Birmingham next month, and you're one of the Oracle bloggers, we're organizing a meetup on Tuesday, November 14th from around 8pm. The venue will be All Bar One, in the Brindley complex next to the ICC; this

I'm over in Bratislava, Slovakia this evening in preparation for the next leg of my BI Seminar tour. My luck with regards to hotels seems to have run out, as rather than being in the local Radisson SAS I'm actually in the Hotel Ibis, which is

Lock up your daughters - the Oracle Openworld blogger meetup is scheduled for Tuesday, October 24th at 7.00pm at the Thirsty Bear Brewing Company [http://www.rittman.net/2006/09/18/oow2006-blogger-meetup-tuesday-24th-october-thirsty-bear-brewing-company-7pm/] , 611 Howard Street, San Francisco. Here's the current line-up of attendees: * Mark Rittman (http://www.

Right, I've been meaning to post this to the blog for a couple of weeks now but I keep getting sidetracked. If you followed the debate around my Incremental Load Improvements in Oracle OLAP 10gR2 [http://www.rittman.net/archives/001336.html] posting a couple of months ago

Of course whilst I've been gallivanting around Europe doing my BI seminars, the news came out from Redwood Shores earlier this week that Oracle had bought Sunopsis, an ETL tool vendor that probably most people wouldn't have heard of until this announcement was made. Sunopsis, as

Today was the first day of the Norway seminar, with thirteen attendees mainly from Oracle itself and from partners. After the seminar, Aaron Merry from Bicon kindly took me for a drive up to the hills outside Oslo, where we saw Holmenkollen, the site of the Winter Olympics, and looked

On Niall Litchfield's recommendation [http://www.rittman.net/2006/10/09/music-for-airports/#comments], I had a quick look around the centre of Oslo this afternoon after arriving at the hotel around 3pm. Oslo's at the top of a large fjord and like Tallinn, it's

Well I'm currently sitting in the departure lounge of Heathrow Terminal 3, waiting for my flight out to Oslo, the latest leg in my seminar tour around Europe. I've got the 'flights-through-Heathrow' bit down to a fine art now; taxi to Brighton Station, coffee

A quick update on the forthcoming Oracle blogger meetups at Open World and the UKOUG Conference [http://conference.ukoug.org/]. A couple of people warned me that the Thirsty Bear [http://www.rittman.net/2006/09/18/oow2006-blogger-meetup-tuesday-24th-october-thirsty-bear-brewing-company-7pm/] might be closed for a private function during the week of Open

I was in Denmark today for the latest iteration of my BI Seminar. The Oracle office is in Ballerup and I'm staying at the Hotel D'Angleterre in Copenhagen; I'd assumed that the two locations weren't far apart but it actually took me

Well that's the end of my brief trip to the Baltic States, with my seminar in Estonia finished today and one in Lithuania completed earlier this week. The seminar in Estonia was held at Oracle's offices in Tallinn, with ten people attending this time and thirteen

Well it's stage two of my epic Seminar tour around the Baltic States, and about an hour or so ago I arrived in Tallinn for tomorrow's session [http://www.oracle.com/global/ee/education/seminar.html]. Flying out of Vilnius was interesting, it's quite

In my Log Buffer [http://www.rittman.net/archives/2006/09/log_buffer_11_a_carnival_of_th_1.html] posting at the end of last week I made a passing reference to SAP's new BI Accelerator [http://bardoli.blogspot.com/2006/09/saps-bi-accelerator-future-is-in.html], and made the

Although I was up at 5.00am this morning to catch my flight, it did mean I got in to Vilnius, Lithuania just after lunch giving me a few hours this afternoon to do a bit of sightseeing around the Old Town [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilnius_Old_Town]

I'm up at 5.00am tomorrow morning for the next leg of my BI Seminar, this time in Lithuania and Estonia. I've never been to the Baltic states before; In terms of behind the former Iron Curtain, I've been to the Czech Republic for

Welcome to this week's Log Buffer [http://www.pythian.com/blogs/about-log-buffer/], where we'll take a look at some of the hot topics and blog postings over the last few days. As it's Friday and we're all starting to wind down for

OTN have just published my article onData Profiling and Automatic Correction using Oracle Warehouse Builder 10gR2 [http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/rittman-owb.html]. It takes a look at the data profiler, and how you can use the results to generate data rules and data corrections. If you'

A couple of days ago I mentioned that I wanted to take a look at SCD2 and 3 handling using OWB10gR2. This was prompted by the fact that up until now I hadn't really looked in detail at this feature, and I'd been reading a few

On the basis that Tuesday and Wednesday seem the most popular days, and we don't want to leave the blogger event until too late in the week, I'd like to propose the evening of Tuesday October 24th, from 7.00pm, for the 2nd Annual Open World

After being away all last week, next week's going to be a bit nicer, with two days working for a client in the record industry in London, the UKOUG Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools SIG [http://www.rittman.net/archives/2006/09/september_20th_meeting_of_the.html]