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Oracle BI 11g R1: Build Repositories

Codice
D63514GC20
Durata
5 Giorni
Prezzo
2.500,00 € (iva escl.)
Lingua
italiano
Modalità
Virtual Classroom
Corso in aula
       

 

Schedulazione
Luogo Data Iscrizione
A Richiesta

 

Prerequisiti


Conoscenze consigliate:

  • Basic SQL
  • Data warehouse design
  • Database design
  • Dimensional modeling

Recommended Related Training Courses:

  • Oracle BI Publisher 11g R1: Fundamentals Coming Soon
  • Oracle Endeca Information Discovery 2.3: Getting Started
  • Oracle BI 11g R1: Create Analyses and Dashboards Coming Soon
  • Oracle BI 11g: New Features and Exalytics Coming Soon

Il corso è rivolto a:

  • Sviluppatori di applicazioni
  • Responsabili aziendali per l'analisi e la specifica dei dati
  • Amministratore di datawarehouse
  • Analista di datawarehouse

 

Obiettivi


This course teaches you step-by-step procedures to build and verify the three layers of an Oracle BI repository. You'll begin by using the Oracle BI Administration Tool to construct a simple repository to address a fictitious company's business requirements.


Learn To:

  • Build and execute analyses to test and verify a dimensional business model.
  • Use the Oracle BI Adminstration Tool to administer Oracle BI Server.
  • Use the Oracle BI Administration Tool to build, manage and maintain an Oracle BI repository.
  • Build a dimensional business model to address business intelligence requirements.
  • Validate your work by creating and running analyses, and verifying query results using the query log.

Benefits to You

  • Transform your organization’s data into intelligence for improved decision making. Provide time-critical, relevant and accurate insights. Become more efficient at building repositories.
  • Build Logical Business Models


This course will teach you how to import schemas, design and build logical business models and expose business models to users in the Oracle BI user interface. While constructing the repository, you'll learn how to build physical and logical joins, simple measures and calculation measures.


Logical Dimension Hierarchies

You'll then extend the initial repository and learn how to model more complex business requirements, such as logical dimension hierarchies, multiple logical table sources, aggregate tables, partitions and time series data.


Oracle BI Server Security

This course will teach you how to implement Oracle BI Server security and manage the Oracle BI Server cache. Learn how to set up a multi-user development environment and use Administration Tool wizards and utilities to manage, maintain and enhance repositories.


Advanced Course Topics

Finally, explore more advanced topics, like implicit fact columns, bridge tables, usage tracking, multilingual environments, write back and patch merge. An appendix is included, which covers architecture and the benefits of the Oracle Exalytics BI Machine.


Objectives:

  • Set up security to authenticate users and assign appropriate permissions and privileges
  • Build the Physical, Business Model and Mapping, and Presentation layers of a repository
  • Build and run analyses to test and validate a repository
  • Build simple and calculated measures for a fact table
  • Create logical dimension hierarchies and level-based measures
  • Model aggregate tables to speed query processing
  • Model partitions and fragments to improve application performance and usability
  • Use variables to streamline administrative tasks and modify metadata content dynamically
  • Use time series functions to support historical time comparison analyses
  • Apply cache management techniques to maintain and enhance query performance
  • Set up query logging for testing and debugging
  • Set up a multiuser development environment
  • Use Administration Tool wizards and utilities to manage, maintain, and enchance repositories
  • Enable usage tracking to track queries and database usage, and improve query performance
  • Perform a patch merge in a development-to-production scenario

 

Contenuti


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

Modeling 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

Modeling 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


Modeling Time Series Data

Using time comparisons in business analysis

Using Oracle BI time series functions to model time series data


Modeling Many-to-Many Relationships

Using bridge tables to resolve many-to-many relationships between dimension tables and fact tables


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


Multiuser Development

Setting up a multiuser development environment

Developing a repository using multiple developers

Tracking development project history


Performing a Patch Merge

Comparing repositories

Equalizing objects

Creating a patch

Applying a patch

Making merge decisions