This article was originally written for Conspectus Magazine in December 2006 and has been updated in November 2009 by the original author Despite all the hype from vendors the basics of data warehousing have remained fundamentally unchanged –…
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A presentation given to the Oracle Business Intelligence forum for Telcos that discussed how businesses should move from collecting volume of data to using the value of the data. It sets the context about what issues…
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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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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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A presentation given in 1998 to the Data Warehousing & Business Intelligence Conference on the value of using template solutions for data warehouses and data marts. It describes the types of reporting system and discusses the templates then…
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In 1993 I was still working for Sequent Computer Systems as the Technical Leader for Databases. We won a contract to build a then massive 1000 user Unix system using Oracle 7.1 with ten 16 processor…
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