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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

Chapter 4. ODI Sources, Targets, and Knowledge Modules

We know that the primary use of ODI is to move and transform data from one place to another. So in this chapter we'll be delving a bit deeper into the activities and concepts governing the definition and use of source and target datastores and the mechanisms used to move data between them.

First of all we'll take a look at how you define and configure data servers and schemas and how to reverse-engineer them into ODI models to provide sources and targets for interface flows. Then we'll have a look at some simple, but common interface flow examples, and finally we'll revisit Knowledge Modules and the roles they play in data flows. The activities and concepts we'll be covering in this chapter include the following:

  • Defining Physical Schemas using the Topology Navigator and linking them to Logical Schema names via Contexts

  • Reverse-engineering metadata from database and database-like systems into ODI models using Designer Navigator

  • Reverse-engineering...