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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

Chapter 10. Constructing the Data Model

This chapter outlines how to construct the data model with Oracle SQL Data Modeler (a free standalone product or embedded within Oracle SQL Developer from Oracle) using a top-down and bottom-up approach. Oracle SQL Data Modeler will be used to build your database logical and physical models. This can be used by Oracle Warehouse Builder and Oracle Data Integrator. Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) will be used to map the physical database model to the the presentation data model used for reporting. The following recipes focus on the database logical and physical data models:

  • Connecting Oracle SQL Data Modeler to Subversion

  • Importing data models into Subversion

  • Checkout data models from Subversion

  • Synchronizing data model changes with Subversion

  • How to import data models

  • How to reverse engineer your relational data model to a logical data model

  • Creating your domains

  • Creating your glossary

  • Adding standard columns to your data model

  • How to...