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	<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Oh, I am still around!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Not written much for a while - or so a dear friend tells me in an email
I have been busy with some consultancy for a non-BI customer and then several days learning to deliver a training course that a colleague produced; well at least build my virtual machines for the exercises and making sure that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A time not to shop</title>
		<link>http://pjsrandom.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/a-time-not-to-shop/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 12:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a holiday weekend in England and that means our local shopping centre is hosting yet another collector&#8217;s fair. Unlike the others there will not be a Dalek, Wookie, Blake&#8217;s-7 cast member in sight, and probably none of those autograph hunters that actually look like Vogons, Klingons or extras from the Lord of the Rings. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I really need to get a new passport!</title>
		<link>http://pjsrandom.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/i-really-need-to-get-a-new-passport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 18:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am currently in Paris getting ready to participate in a training course - makes a change to be trained, usually I am the one doing the training.
For me, getting to Paris is simple, I walk to my local station (less than ten minutes), catch a train to London (about 30 minutes) then the short [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Warm, snowy Denver</title>
		<link>http://pjsrandom.wordpress.com/2008/04/19/warm-snowy-denver/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 16:24:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers of the other blog, the more technical one, will know that I have been at Collaborate 08 in Denver, CO. I&#8217;ll write about the presentation itself over on the Rittman Mead blog - and I&#8217;ll post up the paper so that the interested can take a look.
When I was booking my flights I found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conferences</title>
		<link>http://pjsrandom.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/conferences/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Loads of other Oracle bloggers have already mentioned it, but the call for papers for UKOUG 2008 is open. I know my colleagues at Rittman Mead are all busy writing abstracts for submission. I am not sure if I will get along the Birmingham meeting in December - the BIWA summit is on in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Articles</title>
		<link>http://pjsrandom.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/articles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:08:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[A few day&#8217;s back I said that I would post the piece I wrote for the Evaluation Centre on the Rittman Mead web site - here it is along with many of the other pieces the team have written.
&#160;
The keen eyed reader may spot a change in style over at the corporate site!
   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indexing the unusual</title>
		<link>http://pjsrandom.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/indexing-the-unusual/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 16:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[For many years I had an interest in non-standard indexing and exotic data types, that is things that weren&#8217;t NUMBER or VARCHAR2. In fact before I came in to data warehousing I was involved in indexing free text such as conversation transcripts and and narrative reports; some of this was pushing the technology of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Data Warehouses are not dead, yet</title>
		<link>http://pjsrandom.wordpress.com/2008/03/09/data-warehouses-are-not-dead-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:49:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the reasons that I left my old job to work with Rittman Mead Consulting was to get back to technology. Don&#8217;t get this wrong, I really did enjoy managing people and having responsibility for a BI practice, but that was at the expense of involvement in a lot of the delivery of systems; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OLAP and summary management</title>
		<link>http://pjsrandom.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/olap-and-summary-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 18:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[So, why is someone who normally writes about data warehouses going to talk about Oracle OLAP, and in particular, cube organized materialized views?
I could run out the argument that I work in a BI consultancy and none of us here at Rittman Mead are 100% aligned to a specific expertise area; for example I do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Meetings and blogs</title>
		<link>http://pjsrandom.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/meetings-and-blogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Scott</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark Rittman mentions a couple of the meetings that I will be attending in the next few weeks; the first is&#160; UKOUG BI &#38; Performance Management event in Central London which is just a stone&#8217;s throw from an old office of mine, so at lunchtime I will be throwing stones at my old office. No, [...]]]></description>
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