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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

Summary


That's it! The data warehouse is now complete. We've now completed the work to develop our ACME Toys and Gizmos Company data warehouse. We covered quite a bit of information in this chapter about validating our objects, generating the code for them, deploying to the target environment, and finally executing the code. We were introduced for the first time to the Control Center Manager where we got to interact with the Control Center to deploy and execute objects in our target database environment.

We covered these topics together in this chapter as they are all related. But in actual projects, we will frequently find ourselves performing these steps in an iterative process as we work on the project. We don't have to necessarily wait until the end to perform all these tasks. We can perform some validation and generation as we design each object or mapping.

However, we have one chapter remaining so don't quit yet because we are going to cover some more small details about what we've...