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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

Chapter 10. Code Template Mappings

Up until now we've covered features in the Warehouse Builder that have been in the product for quite some time now. The 11gR2 release now takes the product a step further, adding new features that are starting to bring functionality in line with Oracle's other data integration product, Oracle Data Integrator (ODI). Oracle's long-term data integration strategy is to combine both OWB and ODI eventually into a single product that serves all the data integration needs of their customers in a way that does not leave behind any work that may have been done by customers in each individual product. By adding features to OWB that are currently in ODI, Oracle is beginning to implement that strategy. To read more about Oracle's intent in this area the following URL contains a white paper that outlines their strategy—(http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/data-integrator/overview/sod-1-134268.pdf). It is available as a link from Oracle's main Oracle Data Integrator...