Technical Almost started OLAP 11g... The proposal deadline for the upcoming Collaborate 08 was shortly before I was to leave my old employer - it was already known that I would be leaving them to join Mark and Jon (and possibly, it was known before Rittman Mead Consulting existed!) so it came as no real
Technical Reading time - Oracle 11g There you are - I've mentioned it. But I have not downloaded it yet. One of the things I do with any new release is to read some (no, not all) of the documentation. The new features documentation, of course, is a given and enough of the of
Technical Back Home, and Reflections on Open World Well I'm back in the UK now, and I've had yesterday and this morning to myself before the family gets back from Ireland. We're all back at work tomorrow (well school and nursery for the kids, we haven't got them working as
Technical Oracle Open World Days 1,2 - Database Roadmaps I'm sitting now in the Speaker Ready-room down in the Moscone South mezzanine, in between sessions on Oracle Database 11g and the BI Suite Enteprise Edition & Standard Edition presentations later this afternoon. The morning started off with the Chuck Rozwat keynote on Oracle's database technology,
Technical Working Through Some SCD 2 and 3 Examples Using OWB10gR2 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
Data Warehousing Debating Earlier this year Mark Rittman and I briefly discussed the concept of a matching pair of conference papers on aggregation in Business Intelligence. Mark would look at the use of Oracle OLAP as an aggregation technique and I would do something similar on conventional (and maybe less conventional) relational techniques.