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Oracle Data Integrator 11g Cookbook

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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.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Oracle Data Integrator 11g Cookbook
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Loading data from an SQL query


With the release of ODI 11g came two very important new features: the ability to specify an inline query in the form of a temporary interface and the ability to specify the use of an inline query within a knowledge module. Together, these two new features can be combined to provide developers with the ability to use any SQL expression as a data source to an interface. It is the intent of this recipe to demonstrate a simple example of this powerful capability.

Getting ready

To follow along with the examples listed here, you will need an ODI project with the following KMs: LKM SQL to Oracle, IKM SQL_as_Source (this module can be downloaded from the Packt website), and IKM Oracle Incremental Update. From a resource perspective, you will need to have imported the DEMO_SRC and DEMO_TRG data models as described in the Preface.

How to do it...

Note

We begin by creating a temporary interface using a projection (list of columns) based on an inline view definition and managed...