Oracle Warehouse Builder 10g: Implementation Part II

This 2-day course in Oracle Warehouse Builder provides students information to successfully implement new projects and extend existing projects to include OLAP (multi-dimensional) data models.

Students learn to deliver on the knowledge requirements of their organization by encapsulating expertise. This is done in the form of a feature called Experts – empowering broader audiences to use OWB functionality to accomplish particular task flows, and also to help implement/enforce standards and best practices.

Note:

The current version of this course is presented using OWB 10gR2, however this course is also suitable for OWB 11gR1 customers. The user interface differences between OWB 10gR2 and 11gR1 are very minor and hence are not included in this course's lab practices.

Audience

• Business Intelligence Developer
• Business Analysts
• Data Warehouse Administrator
• Data Warehouse Analyst
• Database Administrators

Course Topics Understanding Oracle OLAP Concepts and Technology

• Benefits of using OLAP for end users and for information technology (IT) in general
• Key advantages of Oracle OLAP
• Main features of a dimensional model
• Role of an analytic workspace in the Oracle database

OWB OLAP Modeling and Deployment

• Use additional dimension-modeling capabilities –Value-based, ragged-level, skip-level hierarchies
• Design the multi-dimensional modeling

Using Spreadsheet Add-In to Query OLAP Data

• Use OracleBI Spreadsheet Add-In in Microsoft Excel
• Connect to your Oracle OLAP data source
• Create OLAP queries
• Use Excel features on OLAP data

Managing OWB Life-Cycle Changes

• Use OWB Change Manager to take “snapshot” versions of metadata, compare them, and restore them if necessary
• Use Metadata Dependency Manager to perform impact and lineage analysis

Using the Mapping Debugger

• Initialize a mapping debugging session
• Prepare the testing environment and test data
• Set breakpoints and watch points
• Run a test mapping
• Evaluate the flow of data to detect mapping errors

Managing the Warehouse Builder Environment

• Use OWB security management user interface
• Manage deployment and loading in a variety of configurations

Creating Experts

• Explain the benefits of Warehouse Builder Experts for novice users
• Use the Expert Editor to define an Expert

Course Objectives

• Model multi-dimensional dimensions and cubes
• Populate the Oracle database analytic workspace by using OWB
• Build an Expert
• Manage multiple named configurations
• Debug your mappings using the Mapping Debugger
• Use OracleBI Spreadsheet Add-In Microsoft Excel to connect to your Oracle OLAP data source
• Use OWB Change Manager to take “snapshot” versions of metadata, compare them, and restore them if necessary