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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - Second Edition

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

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - Second Edition

By: Adrian Ward, Christian Screen, Haroun Khan

Overview of this book

Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 12c is packed full of features and has a fresh approach to information presentation, system management, and security. OBIEE can help any organization to understand its data, to make useful information from data, and to ensure decision-making is supported by facts. OBIEE can focus on information that needs action, alerting users when conditions are met. OBIEE can be used for data analysis, form production, dashoarding, and workflow processes. We will introduce you to OBIEE features and provide a step-by-step guide to build a complete system from scratch. With this guide, you will be equipped with a good basic understanding of what the product contains, how to install and configure it, and how to create effective Business Intelligence. This book contains the necessary information for a beginner to create a high-performance OBIEE 12c system. This book is also a guide that explains how to use an existing OBIEE 12c system, and shows end users how to create.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c - second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Installing the metadata schemas


The final installation task in this chapter is the creation of the schemas that will be used by the WebLogic part of the Fusion Middleware software. For this step, we will use the Repository Creation Utility (RCU) that has been installed as part of the Fusion Middleware system software.

Creating the database and user

Before we begin, let's create and configure a user and database in our SQL Server database:

  1. Open SQL Server Management Studio.

  2. Create a new login, called obiee_sa, which uses SQL Server Authentication. Make a note of the password you create for this user.

  3. Create a new database.

  4. Enter the database name of obiee_book.

  5. Set the owner as obiee_sa.

  6. Select Options in the left-hand panel.

  7. Scroll to the Miscellaneous Section in the right-hand panel.

  8. Change the value for Allow Snapshot Isolation to True.

  9. Change the value for I s Read Committed Snapshot On to True:

  10. Click on OK.

    You will also need to code on your SQL Server Database to set the collation; open a New...