In September 2004 we presented at the Oracle OpenWorld conference on the successful initial stages on rolling out an enterprise wide information and reporting portal built on the Oracle tool set. Rail privatisation and RailTrack was…
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Installing CVS on Windows To access and work with the the CVS repositories you must install a CVS client on your Windows PC that can talk to the CVS servers. There are scores of CVS clients…
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Overview Once you have installed PuTTY but before you can connect to the CVS server, you must create your SSH authentication keys. SSH authentication keys are a more secure way of controlling access to the CVS…
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Overview PuTTY is a GUI Windows client that makes it easy to use the SSH (secure shell) protocol to connect your Windows PC to a Linux server hosting a CVS repository Installing an SSH client and…
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CVS – Getting Started Use this document to get started using CVS. It contains a very short intro to CVS and points you to the more detailed installation and configuration procedures you must follow to use…
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Yesterday Yesterday, All those backups seemed a waste of pay. Now my database has gone away. Oh I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, There’s not half the files there used to be, And there’s a milestone hanging…
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One commonly overlooked side of building a data warehouse is the need for configuration management and issue tracking. This article looks at a way to do this. Since this article was written we have upgraded from…
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We all know that we should be writing file extracts as XML but if we really need to get a CSV file then here is how to do it Introduction Comma Separated Values (CSV) files have…
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This article descibes building data marts from a data warehouse or transaction repository. It discusses the merits of full and incremental loads for different data marts. The types of data marts to load Having built…
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Introduction The Oracle DBA Crib Sheet is not an exhastive list of what a DBA has to do, instead it has been written for a particular client whose support team occasionally need dba commands and don’t…
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