I was running a data warehousing training event for a client recently, and in one of the sessions we looked at bitmap indexes and bitmap join indexes. Whilst the session went OK I remember thinking to myself at the end, “you know what, there’s a fair bit about bitmap indexes I’m not too clear on”, [...]
One conference that I won’t be going to, but I really wish I was, is the second Oracle BIWA Summit on December 2nd and 3rd 2008 at Redwood Shores, California. The Oracle BIWA SIG (Business Intelligence, Warehousing and Analytics Special Interest Group) is a SIG within the IOUG that focuses on the database-driven part of [...]
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009 is being held next June in Monterey, California, and the call for papers closes on November 3rd. If you’re thinking about putting an abstract in, there’s just a few days left now.
ODTUG Kaleidoscope is different to all the other conferences in that it’s practical, technical, focused on developers and has a very [...]
Well, I’ve just realized that for the first time in what must be six months, I’ve not got any course material, presentations, articles or blog posts to write. Today was the last day of our inaugural BI Training Days event, and now that the event has finished and the material has all been delivered, I’m [...]
I’m pleased to announce that, at the UKOUG Partner of the Year Awards last week in London, Rittman Mead Consulting won the Business Intelligence Partner of the Year category. Thank you, all the UKOUG members that voted for us, and for our customers and partners that have worked with us since Jon and I founded [...]
One of the new things that shipped with the OBIEE 10.1.3.4 release was a new set of sample data, and a set of reports and dashboards that show off the more advanced features of OBIEE. If you download and install OBIEE now, this is the sample set of data and reports that you get instead [...]
I’m traveling over to Philadelphia later this week to speak at the Philadelphia Oracle Users Group evening on October 16th, Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004. My presentation is entitled “A Future Oracle BI&DW Architecture” and it takes a look at what’s now possible with Oracle Database 11g, OBIEE 10.1.3.4, EPM 11.1.1 and the new Exadata / [...]
The other day I posted about the query log file generated by the Oracle BI Server, and how you could use it to add diagnostics to your query environment. Scott Powell added a comment to the posting suggesting that I take a look at the Usage Tracking feature within OBIEE, as this logs query statistics [...]
As a follow-up to the posting I did last week on Oracle BI Enterprise Edition performance tuning, I thought I’d take a closer look a the query log file generated by the Oracle BI Server, the “virtual database engine” that ships with Oracle BI EE. For some time now I’ve been looking to see if [...]
Something that we’ve been working on in the background recently, and are now able to announce, are the first of our Oracle BI Training Days running in London from October 22nd to the 24th, 2008. If you’re a developer using Oracle’s latest BI tools and you’re looking to take a step up in terms of [...]