http://blog.wherescape.com This is where we talk about things related to data warehousing, WhereScape RED and anything else that come along. Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:39:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en WhereScape, in conjunction with Forrester and Composite Software, is running an Agile BI webinar.  As well as our very own Mark Budzinski, the other presenters will be Boris Evelson, VP and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research and Rorbert Eve, EVP of Marketing with Composite Software. The idea for the webinar really ... http://blog.wherescape.com/corporate/agile-bi-webinar-with-forrester-august-4/ We recently invited Dr Ken Collier (theagilest.com) down to New Zealand to work with our development team.  As you can guess from the name of his website Ken is an agile kind of guy.  And not one of the crop of recent converts  – he has been working in agile ... http://blog.wherescape.com/agile-dw/are-you-ready-to-deploy-this-afternoon/ On Saturday I had my 40th birthday party in the Dominion Bar in Mt Eden, Auckland, New Zealand.  The theme was “70’s meets Charity Shop Glam” and I must say there were some fantastic outfit efforts.   A Big thanks to all the WhereScape chaps who attended with their lovely, lucky ladies ... http://blog.wherescape.com/rants-raves-and-unrelated/another-decade-begins/ So I will admit I am little behind on my reading...but I just got around to looking at a blog posting on the BeyeNETWORK from Bill Inmon entitled "Incremental Data Warehouse Development – The Only Way to Fly" I totally agree with what he says.  The SDLC approach for data warehousing ... http://blog.wherescape.com/corporate/bill-inmon-on-incremental-data-warehouse-development/ WhereScape RED natively supports type 1, 2 and 3 dimensions. But what on earth is a type 6 dimension? It is a combination of a type1, type 2 and type 3! Basically there are two columns used to track a type 6 attribute – one holds the ... http://blog.wherescape.com/technology/type-6-dimensions/ We are moving away from the concept of the free Practitioner License of WhereScape RED. The original idea was that we would happily provide free copies of WhereScape RED to individuals, but would charge organizations if they wanted to go into production with the output.  I guess we should have anticipated ... http://blog.wherescape.com/corporate/end-of-the-line-for-practitioner-licenses/ WhereScape has made the finals of the the Duncan Cotterill Innovative Software Product of the Year category at the New Zealand Hi Tech Awards.  We do our development out of New Zealand, and these awards are about as big as they come in that part of the world (in tech ... http://blog.wherescape.com/corporate/wahoo-yeeha-bring-it-on/ Once again, Steve, Jason and Doug and new recruit Jake took on the2010 Kona Colville Classic, a 72km (45 mile) mountain bike race around the tip of the Coromandel Peninsula (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coromandel_Peninsula).  The section of the race around the top is not accessible by road so careful riding and packing of ... http://blog.wherescape.com/rants-raves-and-unrelated/cycling-legends-at-colville/ WhereScape's Chuck Kelley has written a blog for BeyeNETWORK on the performance trade offs between joins and storage.  The question he asks is: What is the best performing way to load a fact table that has 20 different dimensions? As he sees it, there are 3 options: Create the table from a single FROM … ... http://blog.wherescape.com/technology/performance-trade-offs-%e2%80%93-joins-vs-storage/ We are thrilled to be taking part in a Teradata webinar next week.  It is called Production Deadline Insomnia: Beat the Clock with Maximum Results.  As the title implies the webinar will be be about the unfortunately all too common scenario of having project deadlines that look too tight. The presenters will ... http://blog.wherescape.com/corporate/join-teradata-united-rentals-and-wherescape-for-a-webinar/