The Data Warehouse Insider

Kindles, books and appliance style software licensing

By jean-pierre.dijcks on June 30, 2009 1:11 AM

Luckily I did have some spare time at ODTUG last week, got all settled for some reading only to realize I’d forgotten to bring the book I'm reading. I do like my books on paper and I like to own...

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Customers, customers and customers

By jean-pierre.dijcks on June 29, 2009 10:47 AM

Oracle today released a press release, and we get to now show off some the customers that really understand the value of the HP Oracle Database Machine. Some of the interesting things customers are saying: “After carefully testing various options...

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Best Practices at ODTUG

By jean-pierre.dijcks on June 25, 2009 6:07 PM

Today was the last day in Monterey. Bye bye aquarium and all the other wonderful things Monterey has to offer. I got lucky with owning one of the sessions in the last block of the conference. But if there is...

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What is going on in the BI/DW world?

By jean-pierre.dijcks on June 23, 2009 6:57 PM

Well, lots of fun things as I got to experience in the BI/DW panel at ODTUG. There were some interesting questions from both the audience and Mark (Rittman that is…). The folks on the panel were Michael Armstrong-Smith, Mike Durran...

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What's going on: HP Technology Forum and Expo

By jean-pierre.dijcks on June 15, 2009 1:20 PM

Should you be in the neighborhood, come visit Hamid and me at the HP Technology Expo in Las Vegas this week. We'll be sharing details on HP Oracle Database Machine with the folks out there in a set of workshops....

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Netezza...

By jean-pierre.dijcks on June 1, 2009 8:17 AM

It is an interesting world these days. Have been reading through the earnings call for Netezza and it was certainly interesting. Obviously it was all great, but the tone has certainly changed over the past quarter. It is a lot...

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Podcast: QXL Allegro on Database Machine

By jean-pierre.dijcks on May 22, 2009 10:27 AM

With the long weekend coming up I figured you all need something to listen to. Here is the latest discussion by an actual customer on the HP Oracle Database Machine. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OracleDatabaseInsider/~3/jbgZ7ZJ1ZGA/7643077_Christian_Maar_052009.mp3 Enjoy the long weekend, or if you are not...

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Data Warehouse Vendor Comparison

By jean-pierre.dijcks on April 29, 2009 12:56 PM

Spent some time looking at various vendors and their offerings and tried to compare it with the HP Oracle Database Machine offering from a customer perspective... In other words, what would I be looking at if I was looking at...

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Sun and HP Oracle Database Machine

By jean-pierre.dijcks on April 24, 2009 8:00 AM

Ok, before you all get excited and make up all sorts of cool stories, better to go to the source and figure out what is going on. First of all, the following is the only place where you hear the...

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Oracle Releases Industry Data Models

By jean-pierre.dijcks on April 20, 2009 3:18 PM

There is a lot of interesting news coming out of Oracle these days... And while the sun is shining here in California there are interesting things going on. We just made the first in a series of industry data models...

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Compressing Individual Partitions in the warehouse

By jean-pierre.dijcks on April 10, 2009 10:55 AM

Partitioning, now that is a topic that we talk a lot about here at Oracle. If you look in the data warehouse guide and related publications you will see lots on partition pruning, partition wise joins and partitioned indexing. For...

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Oracle Exadata Storage Server class now available

By jean-pierre.dijcks on April 3, 2009 8:01 AM

Oracle University is now offering a class on Oracle Exadata Storage. The class is a Live Virtual Class (LVC) allowing your resources and our resources to come together in class without traveling. After all, greener is better! The class outline,...

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New HP Oracle Database Machine offering

By jean-pierre.dijcks on March 19, 2009 7:00 AM

Oracle is now offering a new member of the HP Oracle Database Machine product line. As you all know we offered a fully configured rack containing the following (at a high level): A database server grid containing 8 HP DL360...

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We are you-tubed...

By jean-pierre.dijcks on March 7, 2009 8:05 AM

I had forgotten about this interview, just noticed it in the database insider news letter. You can subscribe to it here, just look for the Oracle Database Insider check box. One of the guys on the PM team (Hamid) is...

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Augment or Replace and what product to use?

By jean-pierre.dijcks on February 26, 2009 5:00 PM

There is a lot said and discussed on the HP Oracle Database Machine offering from Oracle. But , at a high level, I think it is important to understand the two offerings Oracle introduced. These offerings allow various solutions for...

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Oracle at TDWI Las Vegas

By jean-pierre.dijcks on February 23, 2009 8:35 AM

The TDWI Winter conference has just started. Oracle is one of the premier data warehouse vendors at the show. This time around we are demonstrating: - HP Oracle Database Machine and the Exadata Storage Servers - Data Warehousing with Oracle...

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Mission Statement

By jean-pierre.dijcks on February 20, 2009 11:19 AM

One of our goals as a product management team at Oracle is to educate and inform the world about all things data warehousing. We hope we can give you an insider's view of the data warehouse functionality and what the...

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