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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

Summary


You should now be comfortable with the notions of variables in ODI and how to leverage them to operate in an environment that can be extremely dynamic.

We have seen in detail the following elements:

  • How to create variables, and how the different definitions impact the usability of variables

  • How to use variables in models and interfaces so that the same code can be used even in a dynamic environment

  • How to use variables in Packages and Load Plans as decision points or branching points

We can now look into the different steps required to build your processes, from connectivity to the source and target systems, to the required transformations and loading techniques. As we cover these elements in the following chapters, keep in mind that you can use variables in most places.