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Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g: Getting Started

By : Bob Griesemer
Book Image

Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g: Getting Started

By: Bob Griesemer

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, alongside numerous tips and hints not covered by the official documentation.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Oracle Warehouse Builder 11 Getting Started
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Chapter 1. An Introduction to Oracle Warehouse Builder

The Oracle Warehouse Builder (OWB) is what this book is all about, so let's start discussing it by looking at it from a high level. We'll talk about some installation topics and the various components that compose this application. Oracle provides some detailed installation documentation and user guides that give you step-by-step instructions on how to install the product and the prerequisites we need to have in place. So we will focus more on some general topics that will help us understand the installation better. We'll walk through a basic installation that can be followed along and actually performed while reading. We'll be accepting most of the defaults during the installation for simplicity. For more advanced installation requirements, dig into the Oracle installation documentation to get familiar with the options that are available. You can find this at http://www.oracle.com/pls/db111/homepage by clicking on the Installing and Upgrading link in the lefthand frame.