Oracle Data Integrator 11g Cookbook

Oracle Data Integrator 11g Cookbook

Overview of this book

Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is Oracle's strategic data integration platform for high-speed data transformation and movement between different systems. From high-volume batches, to SOA-enabled data services, to trickle operations, ODI is a cutting-edge platform that offers heterogeneous connectivity, enterprise-level deployment, and strong administrative, diagnostic, and management capabilities."Oracle Data Integrator 11g Cookbook" will take you on a journey past your first steps with ODI to a new level of proficiency, lifting the cover on many of the internals of the product to help you better leverage the most advanced features.The first part of this book will focus on the administrative tasks required for a successful deployment, moving on to showing you how to best leverage Knowledge Modules with explanations of their internals and focus on specific examples. Next we will look into some advanced coding techniques for interfaces, packages, models, and a focus on XML. Finally the book will lift the cover on web services as well as the ODI SDK, along with additional advanced techniques that may be unknown to many users.Throughout "Oracle Data Integrator 11g Cookbook", the authors convey real-world advice and best practices learned from their extensive hands-on experience.

Oracle Data Integrator 11g Cookbook

Credits

Foreword

About the Authors

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

Free Chapter

Installation, Deployment, and Configuration

Introduction

Deploying and configuring a standalone agent manually

Deploying a JEE ODI Agent

Configuring a standalone agent with OPMN

Deploying JDBC drivers with a JEE ODI Agent

Defining the Oracle Data Integrator Security

Introduction

Setting up LDAP security for Oracle Data Integrator

Setting external authentication with Oracle Data Integrator

Creating users using generic profiles

Creating users using non-generic profiles

Creating new custom profiles in the Security navigator

Advanced Topology

Introduction

Creating a new technology

Modifying actions to get more from your diagrams

Modifying and expanding datatypes

Changing the case sensitivity for code generation

Best practice – using the Staging Area User to access your target schema

Using Variables

Introduction

Passing start-up parameters to a scenario using variables

Using table names that run in all contexts using getObjectName

Using variables to filter data based on a timestamp

Using variables in KM options (and reusing the variables in an interface, package, and so on)

Using variables in topology

Using variables to control loops inside packages

Knowledge Module Internals

Introduction

Using the substitution passes

Using Java variables in KMs

Using Java for condition code generation

Invoking Java from the KMs

Using substitution methods in Java

Combining substitution methods in a KM

Inside Knowledge Modules – SCD and CDC

Introduction

Implementing Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD) using ODI

Modifying a Slowly Changing Dimension KM to allow undefined behaviors

Using Changed Data Capture (CDC) - simple

Using Changed Data Capture (CDC) - consistent set

Using one single interface to load changes that occur in any dimensions

Advanced Coding Techniques

Introduction

Using diagrams to develop and maintain models

Generating DDL from data models

Generating interfaces from data models or diagrams

Creating a temporary interface (subquery)

Loading data from an SQL query

Performing a pivot

Loading data using partition exchange

Package Loops and File Processing

Introduction

Defining packages and loops for near real-time execution using a hybrid loop

Using a file from a parameter variable

Detecting files with a variable name

Processing all files in a directory

Processing a large number of files in parallel

XML and Web Services

Introduction

Defining a connection to XML within ODI

Processing complex files with ODI

Processing XML data within an RDBMS not in memory

Invoking web services from ODI

Invoking asynchronous ODI web services with callbacks

Configuring container-based authentication with ODI web services

Advanced Coding Techniques Using the ODI SDK

Introduction

Creating the Master and Work repositories using the SDK

Creating a project using the SDK

Automating the import of artifacts using the SDK

Creating models and datastores using the SDK

Creating an interface using the SDK

Invoking and monitoring a scenario using the SDK

Accessing an Excel spreadsheet

As much as we might want all data to reside in databases, a large amount of data still resides in other formats. In this recipe, we will look into how to read data from an Excel spreadsheet, as this can present some unique challenges.

Getting ready…

To connect to an Excel spreadsheet, ODI requires two components: the ODBC driver provided by Microsoft and the ODI ODBC/JDBC bridge that ships with ODI.

Note

If you are using Excel on a Windows 64-bit platform, you will have to make sure that you have a 64-bit version of the ODBC driver. You can download the proper drivers from the Microsoft support website. The 64 bit ODBC driver for Office 2010 is available at the Microsoft download center at this URL: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=13255

Before getting started, we will need an Excel spreadsheet. To make things simple, you can create a spreadsheet with the following data:

EMPNO	ENAME	JOB	HIREDATE	DEPTNO
10	J Tanake...

Oracle Data Integrator 11g Cookbook

Oracle Data Integrator 11g Cookbook

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Accessing an Excel spreadsheet

Getting ready…

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