Oracle Analytics – amazing what they did (years ago).

So it’s somewhat sad to admit but I’ve not until today had a need to utilize any of the analytic functions that Oracle introduced into it’s flagship database roughly a decade ago. I’ve gotten by with simple counts, sums, averages, that sort of stuff but nothing more complicated.
I’m preparing for a presentation I’m giving next [...]

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F1 continues it’s slide :(

Now the twin geniuses Max and Bernie are destroying the very essence of F1 and both Ferrari and Renault (and probably soon some others) are threatening to not rejoin in 2010.
The conflict this time is based around propsed budget caps and the big teams (who have nearly endless amounts of money) are seriously thinking of [...]

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