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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

What you can and can't do with MySQL


We'll be using MySQL for hosting our source data in this chapter, but MySQL is equally suitable as a target or for use as a staging area.

MySQL is one of the platforms listed in the Topology Navigator's Technologies view, so ODI knows about its database functions, datatype capabilities, SQL syntax variations and other characteristics. So the additional work to use a database such as MySQL with ODI is in fact minimal.

However, you cannot use MySQL (at least versions up to and including v5.1) as a host for ODI's Master or Work repositories. Because MySQL has a limitation in its SQL capability. This limitation is not present in all non-Oracle relational databases by any means and should you wish to use a different database for hosting ODI repositories you should consult the following ODI Certification Matrix on the Oracle support website at

ODI 11.1

Repository Database Certification Matrix

Oracle 10.2.0.4+

Oracle 11.1.0.7+

Oracle 11.2.0.1+

Microsoft SQL...