Title: Oracle BI 11g R1 : Build Repositories
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Description: This course provides step-by-step procedures for building and verifying the three layers of an Oracle BI repository. Students begin by using the Oracle BI Administration Tool to construct a simple repository to address a fictitious company’s business requirements. Students import schemas, design and build logical business models, and expose business models to users in the Oracle BI user interface. In the process of constructing the repository, students learn how to build physical and logical joins, simple measures, and calculation measures. Students also learn how to validate their work by creating and running analyses, and verifying query results using the query log.
Audience:
• Application Developers
• Business Analysts
• Business Intelligence Developer
• Data Modellers
• Data Warehouse Administrator
• Data Warehouse Analyst
• Data Warehouse Developer
• Reports Developer
Prerequisites:
• Basic SQL
• Data warehouse design
• Database design
• Dimensional modelling
Duration: 5 Days (8 hrs a day)
Course Topics:
Repository Basics
• Exploring Oracle BI architecture components
• Exploring a repository’s structure, features, and functions
• Using the Oracle BI Administration Tool
• Creating a repository
• Loading a repository into Oracle BI Server memory
Building the Physical Layer of a Repository
• Importing data sources
• Setting up connection pool properties
• Defining keys and joins
• Examining physical layer object properties
• Creating alias tables
Building the Business Model and Mapping Layer of a Repository
• Building a business model
• Building logical tables, columns, and sources
• Defining logical joins
• Building measures
• Examining business model object properties
Building the Presentation Layer of a Repository
• Exploring Presentation layer objects
• Creating Presentation layer objects
• Modifying Presentation layer objects
• Examining Presentation layer object properties
Testing and Validating a Repository
• Checking repository consistency
• Turning on logging
• Defining a repository in the initialization file
• Executing analyses to test a repository
• Inspecting the query log
Managing Logical Table Sources
• Adding multiple logical table sources to a logical table
• Specifying logical content
Adding Calculations to a Fact
• Creating new calculation measures based on existing logical columns
• Creating new calculation measures based on physical columns
• Creating new calculation measures using the Calculation Wizard
• Creating measures using functions
Working with Logical Dimensions
• Creating logical dimension hierarchies
• Creating level-based measures
• Creating share measures
• Creating dimension-specific aggregation rules
• Creating presentation hierarchies
• Creating parent-child hierarchies
• Using calculated members
Using Aggregates
• Modelling aggregate tables to improve query performance
• Setting the number of elements in a hierarchy
• Testing aggregate navigation
• Using the Aggregate Persistence Wizard
Using Partitions and Fragments
• Exploring partition types
• Modelling partitions in an Oracle BI repository
• Using the Calculation Wizard to create derived measures
Using Repository Variables
• Creating session variables
• Creating repository variables
• Creating initialization blocks
• Using the Variable Manager
• Using dynamic repository variables as filters
Modelling Time Series Data
• Using time comparisons in business analysis
• Using Oracle BI time series functions to model time series data
Modelling Many-to-Many Relationships
• Using bridge tables to resolve many-to-many relationships between dimension tables and fact tables
Localizing Oracle BI Metadata and Data
• Localizing repository metadata
• Localizing Oracle BI data
Setting an Implicit Fact Column
• Adding fact columns automatically to dimension-only queries
• Ensuring the expected results for dimension-only queries
• Selecting a predetermined fact table source
• Specifying a default join path between dimension tables
Importing Metadata from Multidimensional Data Sources
• Importing a multidimensional data source into a repository
• Incorporating horizontal federation into a business model
• Incorporating vertical federation into a business model
• Adding Essbase measures to a relational model
• Displaying data from multidimensional sources in Oracle BI analyses and dashboards
Security
• Exploring Oracle BI default security settings
• Creating users and groups
• Creating application roles
• Setting up object permissions
• Setting row-level security (data filters)
• Setting query limits and timing restrictions
Cache Management
• Restricting tables as non-cacheable
• Using Cache Manager
• Inspecting cache reports
• Purging cache entries
• Modifying cache parameters and options
• Seeding the cache
Enabling Usage Tracking
• Setting up the sample usage tracking repository
• Tracking and storing Oracle BI Server usage at the detailed query level
• Using usage tracking statistics to optimize query performance and aggregation strategies
• Analyzing usage results using Oracle BI Answers and other reporting tools
Multi-user Development
• Setting up a multiuser development environment
• Developing a repository using multiple developers
• Tracking development project history
Configuring Write Back
• Enabling write back in a repository
• Creating a write back template
• Granting write back privileges
• Enabling write back in an analysis
Performing a Patch Merge
• Comparing repositories
• Equalizing objects
• Creating a patch
• Applying a patch
• Making merge decisions
Start Date:2011-05-09
Start Time:09:00
End Date:2011-05-13
End Time:18:00