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Data Warehouse,

BigQuery: Data Warehousing with Google?

Google has added two new products to their Labs. The first one is BiqQuery, which according to Google allows users to query trillions of records in an SQL dialect via…
Uli Bethke May 23, 2010
analytic functions,

10 Reasons you really need predictive analytics

SPSS have recently posted and article called "10 Reasons you really need predictive analytics". I thought it would be interesting to post the main points from this article to illustrate…
Uli Bethke February 4, 2010
Business Intelligence,

Why Has Data Mining Struggled So Much?

Bill Inmon has recently posted an article on "Why has Data Mining struggled so much?" The article discusses 7 diferent reasons why data mining has struggled, as it has been…
Uli Bethke November 20, 2009
Books,

Data Warehousing Books: Design and architecture

In another post I have covered data warehousing books in the world of Oracle. We've also had a look at data warehousing and business intelligence books for project management and business analysis.…
Uli Bethke October 31, 2009
Data Warehouse,

TIME dimension script Oracle

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Uli Bethke October 30, 2009
Data Warehouse,

Data warehousing for free! Terabyte sized data warehouse and business intelligence without license costs

Greenplum This is no joke. Greenplum on 19 October announced a free single node edition of its analytical database. For those of you who haven't heard about Greenplum, they are…
Uli Bethke October 26, 2009