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Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g: Getting Started

By : Bob Griesemer
Book Image

Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g: Getting Started

By: Bob Griesemer

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, alongside numerous tips and hints not covered by the official documentation.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Oracle Warehouse Builder 11 Getting Started
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Chapter 3. Designing the Target Structure

We have our entire source structures defined in the Warehouse Builder. But before we can do anything with them, we need to design what our target data warehouse structure is going to look like. When we have that figured out, we can start mapping data from the source to the target. So, let's design our target structure. First, we're going to take a look at some design topics related to a data warehouse that are different from what we would use if we were designing a regular relational database. We'll then discuss what our design will look like, and after that we'll be ready to move right into creating that design using the Warehouse Builder in the next chapter.