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Monthly Archives August 2008

R.E.M setlist Twickenham - 30 August 2008

Orange CrushWake Up BombDriveWhat’s the frequency Kenneth ?I’ve been highHorse to waterSupernatrual SuperseriousLiving well is the best revengeMan on the moonElectroliteWalk unafraidIgnorelandExhuming MccarthyLet me inFall on meMan sized wreathI’m gonn…

Posted 31 August 2008 † Andy C § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

UKOUG BIRT SIG Meeting, London 8th October 2008

The next meeting of the UKOUG Business Intelligence & Reporting Tools Special Interest Group is on October 8th, 2008 at the Hilton Hotel Paddington. We’ve got a special line up this meeting with an extended session by Michelle Bird from Oracle on the new features coming in OWB 11gR2, plus we’ve got sessions by myself [...]

Posted 30 August 2008 † Mark Rittman § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

R.E.M/Editors

The time has finally come to shave my head and don blue facepaint.

Posted 30 August 2008 † Andy C § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Dimension Hierarchy Tables and Slowly Changing Dimensions in the Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse

The blog posts I wrote earlier in the week about ragged hierarchies and bridge tables got me thinking about how these things are represented in the Oracle Business Analytics Warehouse (OBAW), the pre-defined data warehouse that comes with the Oracle BI Applications. The OBAW comes with support for ragged hierarchies in the form of dimension [...]

Posted 30 August 2008 † Mark Rittman § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Gondolas


Posted 30 August 2008 † Andy C § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Off Topic: The Katrina Myth

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology
On this, the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, there is a hurricane (Gustav) setting its sights on New Orleans (and another, Hanna, in the Atlantic). It’s looking like it might be a busy storm ye…

Posted 29 August 2008 † An Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

APEX 3.1.2 patch applied successfully

If you didn’t hear about it yet, you must only read this blog and no others ;-)Yesterday a new Patch came out for Oracle Application Express. If you look at the number of fixes I think it’s worthwhile to apply the patch. Depending the version of APEX y…

Posted 29 August 2008 † Dimitri Gielis § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

cx_Oracle and DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO

Here’s another post from the old blog, harvested from archive.org The other day I was playing with some Python and cx_Oracle, a Python module for connecting to Oracle databases. While cx_Oracle seems to work great, I found the documentation light…

Posted 29 August 2008 † sergio.leunissen § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

OTN Forums - Change the look and feel yourself

The recent OTN Forums update has been heavily blogged/Twittered/posted about already, so I’m not even going to touch that one.
However, one thing that a few people have focused on (pardon the pun) is that the update has changed the way that viewed threads are displayed in a very light grey colour, making them a bit [...]

Posted 29 August 2008 † John Scott § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °

Taking a Staycation

I’m off on a staycation for a while. Since I’ll be at home, there’s a good chance it may turn into a workcation.
I know it sounds weird, but the temptation to work is always there when you work from home. Sounds even crazier out loud. I’m sure the wife will box my ears if she [...]

Posted 29 August 2008 † Jake § Uncategorized ‡ Comments Off °