Cool Tool Of The Week – Open Modelsphere: Open Source Data Modeling is a post from: Database Geek Blog

From The Database Geek

I like playing with new tools and software so I thought I would start a new weekly series, Cool Tool of the Week. I will just cover a tool that I have used or discovered that I think is cool. I’m not necessarily endoring it, just giving it a little publicity so… Read the rest!

Designing the Data Mart – Part 1 is a post from: Database Geek Blog

As I mentioned a while back (a loooong while back), I have been thinking about writing up how I design data marts. The problem with that is that it is a huge topic. Even converting an existing schema (which doesn’t always exist) to a data mart (star schema style), still takes plenty of behind the scenes data analysis and prepwork. Still,… Read the rest!

PL/JSON v0.6 Released to SourceForge is a post from: Database Geek Blog

From the Database Geek.

PL/JSON v0.6.1 has now been released to Sourceforge.net. The reason for the .1 is that I forgot a dependency on the 0.6 release.

Anyway, PL/JSON can now create JSON via the API or through parsing a text string. The parser is implemented as a stand along package. That means you can write your own parser (or use an external… Read the rest!

A day with Ralph Kimball, Part 1 is a post from: Database Geek Blog

I had the opportunity to spend a day in a seminar with Ralph Kimball. If you don’t know who that is, he is a guru of data warehousing. If you’re involved in data warehouses, I hope you are at least familiar with his work. Currently in the industry there are two primary, competing warehousing methodologies, i.e. practically religions to some, Kimball… Read the rest!

Free Database Design Tools is a post from: Database Geek Blog

LewisC’s An Expert’s Guide To Oracle Technology

Sun just announced MySQL Workbench, a new database design tool for MySQL developers and DBAs. I’m a data modeling tool junkie. I like to play with any I can get my hands on. I’ve used almost every modeling tool that’s been built. My all time favorite is probably Erwin.

I decided to download MySQL Workbench and give… Read the rest!

Oracle Designer 9i to 10g Upgrade is a post from: Database Geek Blog

I know I said “A day with Ralph Kimball, Part 2″ would be next but I wanted to get this tech note out there while it was fresh in my mind. I’ll post items like this periodically as they occur to me to do so.

I upgraded our Oracle Designer repository from 9i to 10g. It looks like the little things that… Read the rest!