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Thoughts on Change Data Capture

In little over a month I will be in Las Vegas speaking at Collaborate 10. There is a lot of BI / DW talks this year and for the first time with BIWA Training Days branding. Rittman Mead will be there at the conference giving talks on each of the conference days. If you are [...]

Oracle 11g Pivot

One of the things that I often come across is the “up-dateable fact”, that is a fact that starts life “incomplete” and changes overtime. Examples include things such as support calls that start life as “open” then progress through “responded”, “resolved” and finally “closed”; statuses in the sales cycle such as ordered, paid, shipped; stock [...]