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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial

By : Christian Screen, Haroun Khan, Adrian Ward
Book Image

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial

By: Christian Screen, Haroun Khan, Adrian Ward

Overview of this book

<p>The Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g (OBIEE) suite delivers a full range of analytic and reporting capabilities, coupled with powerful user experience for creating reports, dashboards and more with your business data. "<em>Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial"</em> will have you unleashing that power in no time, helping you to take action and make the right decisions ataglance. <br /><br /><em>"Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial"</em> provides you with valuable insight and the step-by-step know-how you need to take advantage of everything the Oracle BI suite has to offer you, all utilizing real world case studies for a true implementation in action.<br /><br /><em>"Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11g: A Hands- on Tutorial"</em> takes you on a journey right from inception to a full working OBI 11g System. Using a real-world data walkthrough you’ll explore topics like architecture, reporting and leveraging Essbase as a data source, as well as building the Oracle BI 11g metadata repository (RPD), and developing reports and dashboards in the new Fusion Middleware interface. This practical implementation guide equips you with from the coalface advice which will help you achieve a successful working application by journey’s end.</p>
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11: A Hands-On Tutorial
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Running the RCU


The RCU needs to be run as a user with SYSDBA or administrator privileges. For most organizations this will entail asking the Database Administrator (DBA) to run the RCU for you. It is, therefore, worth making sure that they understand the system and what it does, otherwise they will probably object to running in your production environment.

Note

Try to understand what processes the RCU is going through and how you (or the DBA) can keep to corporate guidelines or protocols on your project.

The RCU is supported on 32 bit and 64 bit Windows or Linux.

There are two running methods—normal and silent. The normal method will present the user with a step-by-step guide which prompts the parameters required, whereas the silent method will require all the parameters to be included in the command line.

Setting up your database

The installation provides flexibility to create custom schemas and tablespaces. The default settings provided out of the box are normally sufficient, particularly for...