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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

Warehouse Builder online resources


Oracle provides a number of resources to assist us with using the Warehouse Builder and with Data Warehousing in general. We saw one such resource earlier in this chapter when we talked about binding a table to a dimension. That download is just one of many that are available from that OWB Utility Exchange tips and tricks web site, which is available directly at the link provided previously or as a link off the much larger web page Oracle has that is devoted entirely to Oracle Warehouse Builder at http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/warehouse/index.html.

The link to the download is in a box to the right labeled Other Downloads along with some links to software, patches, and sample code.

The OWB developers maintain a blog that they frequently update with various news and notes about OWB—its future or features of interest. The blog is available via a link from the above OWB page or directly at http://blogs.oracle.com/warehousebuilder/.

This is an excellent...