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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

Features and benefits of OWB


Before we move on to the next chapter, let's take a moment to recapitulate some of the features that the Oracle Warehouse Builder provides to us to make our job easier. This is why we made the choices we did for our design and implementation. By providing us with the option to implement our cubes and dimensions either relationally with ROLAP or fully multi-dimensionally with MOLAP, OWB allows us to design one way in OWB and implement either way in the database with a simple change of a storage option.

  • By providing us the ROLAP option, the Oracle Warehouse Builder opens to us the design features of cubes and dimensions even though we'll be implementing them relationally with tables in our database. Choosing that option rather than just implementing tables directly saves us from having to worry about dimension keys, sequences to populate them, and providing lookups of dimension record keys to fill in for our cube. When loading a dimension, all we have to do is...