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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

Summary


In this chapter we've finished discussing some additional features of the tool. These are not necessarily essential to the initial development of a data warehouse, but are nevertheless valuable features to have available for further development and maintenance. These include features such as metadata change management, which become critical as more and more changes are required to a data warehouse. The Recycle Bin, the Cut, Copy, and Paste features, Snapshots, and the Metadata Loader all assist greatly in our efforts to control the changes we have to make and to keep a track of prior revisions.

Another valuable feature is the ability to keep the objects synchronized with the operators in the mappings that refer to those objects. Also, we can automatically update objects that are bound together, such as dimensions and the tables used to implement them. These features will assist greatly in the task of making changes to our data warehouse, which will inevitably need to be done in any...