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Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology

By : John Heaton
Book Image

Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology

By: John Heaton

Overview of this book

Oracle Database 11g is a comprehensive database platform for data warehousing and business intelligence that combines industry-leading scalability and performance, deeply-integrated analytics, and embedded integration and data-quality all in a single platform running on a reliable, low-cost grid infrastructure. This book steps through the lifecycle of building a data warehouse with key tips and techniques along the way. Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology outlines the key ways to effectively use Oracle technology to deliver your business intelligence solution. This is a practical guide starting with key recipes for project management then moving onto project delivery. Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology is a practical guide for performing key steps and functions on your project. This book starts with setting the foundation for a highly repeatable efficient project management approach by assessing your current methodology to see how suitable it is for a business intelligence program. We also learn to set up the project delivery phases to consistently estimate the effort for a project. Along the way we learn to create blueprints for the business intelligence solution that help to connect and map out the destination of the solution. We then move on to analyze requirements, sources, and data. Finally we learn to secure the data as it is an important asset within the organization and needs to be secured efficiently and effectively.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Synchronizing data model changes with Subversion


Once you have checked out code from Subversion, you can now open the local copy within Oracle SQL Data Modeler. This information can then be updated, enhanced, and synchronized with Subversion.

Getting ready

Close any copies of your data models before opening the checked out version.

How to do it...

Oracle SQL Data Modeler works with code stored on your local computer, and makes any changes to the code. Subversion then tracks these changes, and synchronizes the information for you as follows:

  1. 1. Open the data model by selecting File | Data Modeler | Open. Navigate to the local directory where you used Subversion to create a local copy through the checkout process, and select the file with the .dmd extension:

  2. 2. Click on OK to open the Relational_1 model. Upon opening it, you may receive a notice to send the integrity setting to the repository. Click on OK:

  3. 3. The data model opens and is ready to work as follows:

  4. 4. Make a change to the data model...