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Getting Started with Oracle Data Integrator 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial

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Getting Started with Oracle Data Integrator 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial

Overview of this book

Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is Oracle's strategic data integration platform for high-speed data transformation and movement between different systems. From high-volume, SOA-enabled data services, to trickle operations ñ ODI is a cutting-edge platform that offers heterogeneous connectivity, enterprise-level deployment, and strong administrative, diagnostic, and management capabilities. "Getting Started with Oracle Data Integrator 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial" provides you with everything you to get up and running with Oracle Data Integrator, and more! Following an example scenario, the book covers essential information about the ODI architecture and using ODI across different databases (Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and MySQL), and file types such as XML, before covering Orchestrating Data Integration Workflows, Error Management, Operational Management and Monitoring, and beyond. "Getting Started with Oracle Data Integrator 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial" begins by describing the Oracle Data Integrator architecture and teaching you to install the product following best practices. You'll then be introduced to some of the key concepts of ODI such as the Knowledge Modules. Later topics include moving and transforming data from sources to targets including the Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, Flat files, and XML files, each with illustrated hands-on examples for the different technologies. Your learning experience will be made all the more rich with chapters introducing, explaining and leveraging additional ODI functionality such as variables, reusable procedures, temporary indexes and more. Finally ODI's workflow and task orchestration capabilities are explained before introducing you to Error Management with ODI's built-in 'error hospital' and 'error recycling' capabilities for non-compliant data, not to mention tackling ODI Studio, ODI Console and Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Getting Started with Oracle Data Integrator 11g: A Hands-On Tutorial
Credits
Foreword
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
10
Creating Workflows—Packages and Load Plans
13
Concluding Remarks
Index

Oracle Data Integrator Console


Oracle Data Integrator Console provides remote management capabilities of key ODI components and objects. But ODI Console goes beyond the functionality offered in ODI Studio in two important areas: Data Lineage and Flow Map. Taking a hands-on approach to the FMCC, the following ODI Console features and capabilities are illustrated in this section:

  • How to launch and access ODI Console

  • Data Lineage

  • Flow Maps

Launching and accessing ODI Console

The ODI Console web application is deployed on a WebLogic application server and its default landing page can be accessed by entering the URL associated with the context root of the ODI Console web application. To launch ODI Console, follow the given steps:

  1. Open a web browser and enter http://myhost:port/odiconsole.

  2. Select the repository you wish to connect to from the Repository drop down.

  3. Enter the User Id and Password credentials for the repository and click on Sign In.

Data Lineage

Data Lineage offers the capabilities to look...