Oracle Database 11g: Data Warehousing Fundamentals (Self-Study Course)                     
            
            
                
                
    
     
    
            
                        Quién debería asistir
            
                
- Data Warehouse administrators
 - Data Warehouse analysts
 - Developers
 - Project managers
 
             
        
    
    
            
                        Objetivos del curso
            
                
- Define the terminology and explain the basic concepts of data warehousing
 - Describe methods and tools for extracting, transforming, and loading data
 - Identify some of the tools for accessing and analyzing warehouse data
 - Identify the technology and some of the tools from Oracle to implement a successful data warehouse
 - Define the decision support purpose and end goal of a data warehouse
 - Describe the benefits of partitioning, parallel operations, materialized views, and query rewrite in a data warehouse
 - Explain the implementation and organizational issues surrounding a data warehouse project
 - Use materialized views and query rewrite to improve the data warehouse performance
 - Develop familiarity with some of the technologies required to implement a data warehouse
 
             
        
    
    
                Descripción del Producto
        
            
- Introduction
 - Course Objectives
 - Course Schedule
 - Course Pre-requisites and Suggested Pre-requisites
 - The sh and dm Sample Schemas and Appendices Used in the Course
 - Class Account Information
 - SQL Environments and Data Warehousing Tools Used in this Course
 - Oracle 11g Data Warehousing and SQL Documentation and Oracle By Examples
 - Continuing Your Education: Recommended Follow-Up Classes
 
 - Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence, OLAP, and Data Mining
 - Data Warehouse Definition and Properties
 - Data Warehouses, Business Intelligence, Data Marts, and OLTP
 - Typical Data Warehouse Components
 - Warehouse Development Approaches
 - Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL)
 - The Dimensional Model and Oracle OLAP
 - Oracle Data Mining
 
 - Defining Data Warehouse Concepts and Terminology
 - Data Warehouse Definition and Properties
 - Data Warehouse Versus OLTP
 - Data Warehouses Versus Data Marts
 - Typical Data Warehouse Components
 - Warehouse Development Approaches
 - Data Warehousing Process Components
 - Strategy Phase Deliverables
 - Introducing the Case Study: Roy Independent School District (RISD)
 
 - Business, Logical, Dimensional, and Physical Modeling
 - Data Warehouse Modeling Issues
 - Defining the Business Model
 - Defining the Logical Model
 - Defining the Dimensional Model
 - Defining the Physical Model: Star, Snowflake, and Third Normal Form
 - Fact and Dimension Tables Characteristics
 - Translating Business Dimensions into Dimension Tables
 - Translating Dimensional Model to Physical Model
 
 - Database Sizing, Storage, Performance, and Security Considerations
 - Database Sizing and Estimating and Validating the Database Size
 - Oracle Database Architectural Advantages
 - Data Partitioning
 - Indexing
 - Optimizing Star Queries: Tuning Star Queries
 - Parallelism
 - Security in Data Warehouses
 - Oracle’s Strategy for Data Warehouse Security
 
 - The ETL Process: Extracting Data
 - Extraction, Transformation, and Loading (ETL) Process
 - ETL: Tasks, Importance, and Cost
 - Extracting Data and Examining Data Sources
 - Mapping Data
 - Logical and Physical Extraction Methods
 - Extraction Techniques and Maintaining Extraction Metadata
 - Possible ETL Failures and Maintaining ETL Quality
 - Oracle’s ETL Tools: Oracle Warehouse Builder, SQL*Loader, and Data Pump
 
 - The ETL Process: Transforming Data
 - Transformation
 - Remote and Onsite Staging Models
 - Data Anomalies
 - Transformation Routines
 - Transforming Data: Problems and Solutions
 - Quality Data: Importance and Benefits
 - Transformation Techniques and Tools
 - Maintaining Transformation Metadata
 
 - The ETL Process: Loading Data
 - Loading Data into the Warehouse
 - Transportation Using Flat Files, Distributed Systems, and Transportable Tablespaces
 - Data Refresh Models: Extract Processing Environment
 - Building the Loading Process
 - Data Granularity
 - Loading Techniques Provided by Oracle
 - Postprocessing of Loaded Data
 - Indexing and Sorting Data and Verifying Data Integrity
 
 - Refreshing the Warehouse Data
 - Developing a Refresh Strategy for Capturing Changed Data
 - User Requirements and Assistance
 - Load Window Requirements
 - Planning and Scheduling the Load Window
 - Capturing Changed Data for Refresh
 - Time- and Date-Stamping, Database triggers, and Database Logs
 - Applying the Changes to Data
 - Final Tasks
 
 - Materialized Views
 - Using Summaries to Improve Performance
 - Using Materialized Views for Summary Management
 - Types of Materialized Views
 - Build Modes and Refresh Modes
 - Query Rewrite: Overview
 
 - Leaving a Metadata Trail
 - Defining Warehouse Metadata
 - Metadata Users and Types
 - Examining Metadata: ETL Metadata
 - Extraction, Transformation, and Loading Metadata
 - Defining Metadata Goals and Intended Usage
 - Identifying Target Metadata Users and Choosing Metadata Tools and Techniques
 - Integrating Multiple Sets of Metadata
 - Managing Changes to Metadata
 
 - Data Warehouse Implementation Considerations
 - Project Management
 - Requirements Specification or Definition
 - Logical, Dimensional, and Physical Data Models
 - Data Warehouse Architecture
 - ETL, Reporting, and Security Considerations
 - Metadata Management
 - Testing the Implementation and Post Implementation Change Management
 - Some Useful Resources and White Papers