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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

About the Reviewers

Ehsun Behravesh is a 27 year old software engineer with Khorasan Newspaper (http://www.khorasannews.com) in Mashhad, Iran. He holds a Bachelors degree from London Metropolitan University (http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/). He started programming when he was in high school and has developed software systems for almost 10 years. He is a fan of open source software and one of his open source projects, MyPasswords (http://sourceforge.net/projects/mypasswords7/), won a comparison competition in Linux Format, Jan 2011 magazine. He loves computer programming, music, and animals.

David Allan has 20 years of experience in software development and over 10 years of experience in data warehouse tooling. In his current role, he is one of the architects responsible for Oracle's data integration portfolio, and as such, he takes a leading role in working with Oracle Warehouse Builder and Oracle Data Integrator. David is well-known for his blog on Oracle Warehouse Builder where he provides users with real-world examples and in-depth product knowledge.