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It’s been a few days since my last blog entry and not many over the last few weeks…:-) Business has been taking off spectacularly so I have been very very busy; burning the candels at both ends as they say….[Read More]

Posted by Pete On 11/02/08 At 09:37 PM

The MySQL Users Conference is coming up — April 14-17 in Santa Clara, California, USA.
This was forwarded to me from a colleague:
Are you interested in attending the 2008 MySQL Conference & Expo? I’m happy to announce that LinuxQuestions.org is able to give away one pass to the event. Visit http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-news-59/gratis-2008-mysql-conference-and-expo-conference-pass-627377/ for […]

I am delighted to make the announcement of a major strategic hire.
As of this month, Adam Machanic has been hired to lead Pythian’s global SQL Server practice and will be working out of our office in Central Square in Boston, Massachussets. Adam is in my opinion as close as it comes to a resource in […]

Here is the video of “Database Basics”, which I presented at the February 2008 Boston MySQL User Group meeting. The presentation goes over the basics of relations, data, the Entity-Relationship Model, how to choose data types, and how to do basic CREATE statements.
You can download:
the video (Large, 500 MB, or Small, 100 MB)
and
the slides […]

As Mark mentioned in a comment to a posting, we run the Rittman Mead blog on Wordpress. The recent blog revamp may have upset some feed readers that used feed URLs that we no longer maintain.
Using Wordpress gives us many  more potential feeds than we had before. In addition to the main feed http://www.rittmanmead.com/feed you […]

I saw the film Shoot ‘Em Up recently and thought it was pretty cool. I had no intention of seeing it, but it was the only thing on when I got to the cinema, so I thought I’d give it a go.
Now, when I say it was cool, I don’t mean it had a wonderful […]

I mentioned in a previous post I had a days sightseeing before I started my workshop. Copenhagen is a really cool place. I would definitely like to visit again.
Regarding the workshop, I think it went really well. The people were very friendly and interacted a lot. It’s hard work presenting for 12+ hours, but it’s […]

If you’re an Oracle Hyperion Essbase developer, or perhaps an Oracle BI developer looking to see what the new Hyperion products will bring to the Oracle BI stack, ODTUG have recently published details of the Hyperion track planned for ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2008 in New Orleans.
Tim Tow and Edward Roske, two of the most well-known Essbase […]

In yesterdays posting, I took a look at some of the practicalities behind my recent article on OBIEE “next-generation” architectures. The idea behind this architecture is that you can use the connectivity features of OBIEE to initially report against your data in-place, and then behind the scenes take this data, load it into a data […]

A couple of weeks ago I posted an article about a next-generation Oracle BI architecture, where I advocated building a first cut OBIEE system against your operational applications, producing some “quick win” reports, and then over time copying your operational data into a data warehouse and re-pointing the OBIEE semantic model to point to this […]