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Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g R2: Getting Started 2011

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Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g R2: Getting Started 2011

Overview of this book

In today's economy, businesses and IT professionals cannot afford to lag behind the latest technologies. Data warehousing is a critical area to the success of many enterprises, and Oracle Warehouse Builder is a powerful tool for building data warehouses. It comes free with the latest version of the Oracle database.Written in an accessible, informative, and focused manner, this book will teach you to use Oracle Warehouse Builder to build your data warehouse. Covering warehouse design, the import of source data, the ETL cycle and more, this book will have you up and running in next to no time.This book will walk you through the complete process of planning, building, and deploying a data warehouse using Oracle Warehouse Builder. By the book's end, you will have built your own data warehouse from scratch.Starting with the installation of the Oracle Database and Warehouse Builder software, this book then covers the analysis of source data, designing a data warehouse, and extracting, transforming, and loading data from the source system into the data warehouse. You'll follow the whole process with detailed screenshots of key steps along the way that have all been updated for the new Fusion Client Platform interface in 11gR2, alongside numerous tips and hints not covered by the official documentation. You’ll finish up with a brand new chapter on code templates where you’ll implement a complete mapping using JDBC connectivity and code template mappings.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Oracle Warehouse Builder 11gR2: Getting Started 2011
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Store dimension


We can create our Store dimension in a similar manner using the wizard. We will not go through it in much detail as it is very similar to how we created the Product dimension. The only difference is the type of information we're going to have in our Store dimension. This dimension provides the location information for our data warehouse, and so it will contain address information.

The creation of this dimension will be left as an exercise for the reader using the following details about the dimension.

Store attributes (attribute type), data type and size, and (Identifier)

  • ID (Dimension/Level): Leave default for type and size (Surrogate ID)

  • Store_Number (Level, STORE only): VARCHAR2 length 10 (Business ID)

  • Name (Dimension/Level): VARCHAR2 length 50 (Business ID)

  • Description (Level, COUNTRY and REGION only): VARCHAR2 length 200

  • Address1 (Level, STORE only): VARCHAR2 length 60

  • Address2 (Level, STORE only): VARCHAR2 length 60

  • City (Level, STORE only): VARCHAR2 length 50

  • State (Level...