I meant to write about this sooner... If you're looking for a good BI/DW/Analytics focused event, check out the BIWA Summit which take...

Read more about it here . Call for Papers is here . When/Where It depends, where are you? While I would love to go to the UK, doubtful I cou...

I can't remember exactly where I found this, probably Twitter. From the website : Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy ...

Tonight we welcomed Mr. Stewart Bryson [ blog | twitter | RittmanMead ] into the fold. (Small side note: I met Mr. Bryson in person at COLLA...

This came across just the other day. I had someone in mind but they start their new position come Monday. This job is in South Tampa (Flor...

Being the lazy sort that I am and not wanting to pay for a SQL client, I decided to use my local Oracle instance to access a HP Neoview data...

Anyone out there like baseball? Ever had a desire to model a baseball game? I do and I have tried a few times in the past. It get's pr...

I've been meaning to write this since I first began my foray into the world of datawarehousing back in December of 2006. What is the pur...

Yesterday I wrote about the Datawarehousing TIMES table. Today I populated it. I modified it for my own purposes naturally, specifically...

Many years ago (about 6 or 7 really), my boss sent me this diagram from the Oracle Docs. In particular, he wanted me to focus on the times...

Of course a couple of our leads asked last week if they could get access to OBIEE to do some reports. Naturally, they didn't want the p...

Yes, I said from Prod to Dev. As I recently reacquired my job via the DW guy resigning, I'm in charge of all his stuff. Which basicall...

I learned how to edit a user in OBIEE without breaking anything (thus no need for a new counter Jake ). At first I thought it would be done...

I don't know why I'm so excited about this...I guess I'm trying to live up to my name. See my previous post here full of a few ...

So the big announcement today...Larry created an appliance with HP as the hardware. Press Release Exadata Here's a picture of the new be...

This position is in Tampa, Florida. If you are interested you can email me at chet dot justice at gmail. Position Description: · Develop a...

I'm working a little bit in the datawarehouse again (by the way, is it two words or one?). A technical guy from Oracle showed up today ...

I learned something new today! Multi Table INSERTs. I was trying to capture the new records into a staging table using RETURNING BULK COLLE...

One of the very first things I did when I got my current job was to go through the Datawarehousing guide in the Oracle documentation. Anal...

Until recently, I have been doing support/enhancements and new development for one particular project. In our development environment, I ha...