Data Warehousing & BI
Business Intelligence such as OLAP, BI Beans, Discoverer, Data Mining and Data Warehousing such as OWB
AMIS@OOW
0Yesterday evening we had our annual Oracle Open World review at our office in Nieuwegein. Around eighty people attended and all were very involved with the session. Five AMIS employees were at Oracle Open World, and each one covered one area of interest.
Before dinner Lucas gave an overview of the trends and topics that were covered at Oracle Open World. Just to convey the sheer size of OOW, Peter illustrated this by facts (number of people attending, number of lunches served, etc) as well as by photos. I’m still very impressed that they covered a four lane street (Howard street) by a tent, just to serve lunch… amazing. Marco and myself gave an overview of what AMIS was doing at OOW, as well as the Oracle ACE Directors briefing right before OOW started.
There were a number of goodies that we took from Oracle Open World to give away this evening. We decided to do it a little different this year, we organized a BuzzWord Bingo. Each of the attendees was given a bingo sheet with some of the buzzwords that would be covered during our presentations. Before we went for dinner six people had bingo and got their goodies to take home.
This time we had a Mexican Style dinner, very lovely. More >
Oracle Open World 2010 presentation: Forms2Future: the ongoing journey into the future for Oracle based organizations
0Many organizations around the world have adopted Oracle technology for developing custom applications. Over the past two decades, they may have used PL/SQL, Reports, Forms, Designer, Portal or the Web PL/SQL Toolkit. Many of these organizations have come to face new challenges: more agility or functionality, new user groups or channels or more efficient maintenance. Or they fear getting stuck in the past, running out of support or qualified and motivated resources. What is the right way to approach the future? What mix of tools, how and when to adopt which new technology, how to build a business case? This session recounts various more and less successful warstories of organizations that embarked on a journey into the future.
Peter and I today did our session together about the road to the future for organization that heavily us Oracle software. It was a good session with a lot of interesting questions. It is quite clear to me how much confusion there is, how many organizations are struggling with defining their future plans. How many people hear mixed messages from for example Oracle sales people. And how they simply would like to get a clear, untainted and unbiased picture of More >
Oracle RDBMS 11gR2 – new style hierarchical querying using Recursive Subquery Factoring
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 introduces the successor to the good old Connect By based hierarchical querying, called Recursive Subquery Factoring. The basics are described in a previous article: http://technology.amis.nl/blog/6104/oracle-rdbms-11gr2-goodbye-connect-by-or-the-end-of-hierarchical-querying-as-we-know-it. This article will show some additional examples of using this recursive subquery factoring syntax.
The essence of this recursiveness: the subquery consists of two queries unioned together. The first query returns the root-nodes, the starting points in the tree or network. The second query is used to continually retrieve the next step or level: it refers to the subquery itself and finds the next node level based on the levels (root and zero or more previously retrieved levels) already retrieved by the subquery.
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Oracle Database 11gR2 – New analytical function NTH_VALUE
You are probably familiar with the FIRST_VALUE and LAST_VALUE analytical functions that were introduced some time ago into the Oracle RDBMS, in the 9iR2 release I believe (or at least that is when they made their way into the Standard Edition). These values are used to find the first respectively last value in a window in a partition that has been ordered in a certain way.
Oracle introduces a new, related function in 11gR2, called NTH_VALUE. Instead of simply the first or last value in an analytical window, we can ask for a specific row number, such as 2nd row (ND_VALUE?), the 7th or the 223th. This article shows the syntax for this new function.
The "X" Product – An X(ML) Database Opportunity?
"Exadata – Extreme Performance Warehousing", that’s how the presentation on the last Friday morning from Oracle Open World started (Orig. Presentation Title was "Oracle’s New Database Accelerator: Query Processing Revolutionized") while speaking about the new database machine. And indeed it was a revolution and it took the blogosphere by night. My notes from this session are already "for historic use" because a lot of people already blogged about it.
Another nice side effect is that Kevin Closson started blogging again. If you want to know all about there is to know regarding the "Exadata" hardware then you now can read up on Kevin’s: "Exadata Posts" page and FAQ’s. It must have been hard for Kevin not to blog about this cool piece of machinery and its smart database software.
So if you want you can skip the following, because it is old news
Oracle Data Mining meets performance method "GAPP"
Sunday 21 September 2008 at Oracle Open World, I had the opportunity to present my method "GAPP" once more (HOTSOS 2008 and Planboard may 2008). This time I also mentioned how the method can be used with Service Oriented Architectures (SOA). For people not knowing what "GAPP" is all about I give a small introduction to the method. I also like to tell you why I started with “GAPP†in the first place and what the added value is of the method above other methods.
"GAPP" means General Approach Performance Profiling and can be used to find out where in your architecture the most wait time variance can be explained from your business process. "GAPP" makes it possible with very little data, in higly complex technical infrastructures, still be able to find the performance bottlenecks for a specific business process. The nice thing about the method is that it is not only able to pinpoint a bottleneck which is already there, it is also able to pinpoint a future bottleneck in a normal running system. This is something what only "GAPP" can do.
What makes “GAPP†special:
- The method can analyse the full infrastructure, so from front-end to back-end
- The method is not focussing on one More >
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