Oracle BI 11g R1: Build Repositories (Self-Study Course)

 

Quién debería asistir

  • Businessanalytiker
  • Data Warehouse-Administrator
  • Data Warehouse-Analytiker

Objetivos del curso

  • Use time series functions to support historical time comparison analyses
  • Set up security to authenticate users and assign appropriate permissions and privileges
  • 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
  • Configure Oracle BI to support multilingual environments
  • 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

Descripción del Producto

  • Repository Basics
    • 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
  • 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
  • Multiuser 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

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