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Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology

By : John Heaton
Book Image

Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology

By: John Heaton

Overview of this book

Oracle Database 11g is a comprehensive database platform for data warehousing and business intelligence that combines industry-leading scalability and performance, deeply-integrated analytics, and embedded integration and data-quality all in a single platform running on a reliable, low-cost grid infrastructure. This book steps through the lifecycle of building a data warehouse with key tips and techniques along the way. Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology outlines the key ways to effectively use Oracle technology to deliver your business intelligence solution. This is a practical guide starting with key recipes for project management then moving onto project delivery. Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology is a practical guide for performing key steps and functions on your project. This book starts with setting the foundation for a highly repeatable efficient project management approach by assessing your current methodology to see how suitable it is for a business intelligence program. We also learn to set up the project delivery phases to consistently estimate the effort for a project. Along the way we learn to create blueprints for the business intelligence solution that help to connect and map out the destination of the solution. We then move on to analyze requirements, sources, and data. Finally we learn to secure the data as it is an important asset within the organization and needs to be secured efficiently and effectively.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Enabling Virtual Private Database in OBIEE


Once the VPD is set at the database level, it needs to be enabled within OBIEE. The configuration enables OBIEE to set the correct application contexts within the database.

Getting ready

Open the Oracle BI Administration Tool window and connect to the repository. Open SQL Developer and log in as the schema owner.

How to do it...

In the previous recipes for VPD, you created an application context package and some function, to restrict row and column data. In this recipe, we will build upon that knowledge to integrate the same concepts into OBIEE to be able to provide row- and column-level security.

  1. 1. Update your context package to set all the necessary context values for OBIEE in SQL Developer. This will replace the previous package we had created:

    create or replace
    package context_package as
    procedure NAME_VALUE(N varchar2, V varchar2);
    PROCEDURE OBIEE_SET_VPD(U VARCHAR2, R VARCHAR2);
    function SET_NAME_VALUE (N varchar2, V varchar2) return varchar2...