Oracle Warehouse Builder is Oracle's tool for designing, deploying, and managing business intelligence and data integration projects on the Oracle database. It provides a graphical environment to extract, transform, and load data from various sources into a Oracle data warehouse or datamarts. Warehouse Builder manages the full lifecycle of metadata and data, and enables users to design and deploy ETL processes, reporting infrastructure, and manage the target schema.

1. Oracle: Data Warehouse Builder

2. What Is Oracle Warehouse Builder?
– Oracle Warehouse Builder is Oracle’s industry-
leading enterprise business intelligence integration
design tool.
– Warehouse Builder manages the full life cycle of
data and metadata for Oracle Database.
• Provides an easy to use, graphical environment to design,
deploy, and manage business intelligence systems
• Enables the extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL)
of data for quality information in the Oracle database
• Protects and leverages customer investment in the Oracle
technology stack through data and metadata integration

3. Producing Quality Information
Business
Transformation intelligence Action
Data Information Knowledge
(quality
information)
• Warehouse Builder enables the extraction,
transformation, and loading of data to produce quality
information in the Oracle database.

4. Managing the Full Life Cycle of
Metadata and Data

5. BI Environment from an OWB
Perspective
OWB Model, extract,
transform, load,
and manage BI data
Create Share
OWB
repository analytic business
content intelligenc
e
Relational Portal
Disco
BI Beans
Sources and/or Plus page
• Relational Multi- Disco
• Flat files dimensional Spread Repo Viewer
• Applications (OLAP) -sheet rts BI
• Mainframe Beans
• SAP add-in
Oracle database Tools using applicat
BI data
ion

6. Typical Flow of Design and
1
Deployment
Design target
metadata. 3 Design source-to-
target mappings
Capture or for ETL.
2 sample OWB
source repository Validate, generate,
metadata. 4 and deploy code.
Possibly
profile data.
Derive and deploy
5 BI reporting
infrastructure.
Sources
Target
warehouse and
data marts
Execute process flows
6 or individual mappings
to extract, transform, Capture knowledge Define A.
and load data. 7 using “experts.” Define B.
Map A to B.

7. Tasks Involved in Warehouse Builder
Administration
– Administer the repository
– Perform metadata backup – Manage repository
and recovery and target users
– Manage metadata – Manage security
changes privileges
OWB
– Diagnose errors
– Troubleshoot
repository
common issues
Sources
Target – Maintain target
warehouse schema objects
– Tune performance
of ETL processes
(optional)

8. Steps for Setting Up the
Warehouse Builder Environment
1. Verify the installation
requirements.
2. Determine the environment
configuration scenarios.
3. Prepare the server
infrastructure (OS, Database).
4. Install optional components.
5. Install Warehouse Builder.
6. Create the Warehouse Builder
repository.

9. Installing Warehouse Builder
– Warehouse Builder uses
Oracle Universal Installer
to install components
and to configure
environment variables.
– OUI installs all the
software at the same
time.
– This software can play
the role of client or
server software
depending on where you
run the installation.

10. Creating a Warehouse Builder
Repository
– Two ways of defining a Warehouse Builder repository:
• Using Repository Assistant (wizard)
• Using the OMB Plus OMBINSTALL OWB_REPOSITORY
command
– Two ways to create a repository when using the
Repository Assistant:
• Basic Install
• Advanced Setup

11. Logging In to OWB Design Center
If you have not yet created a
repository, click the Get Started
button to create one. This launches
the Repository Assistant.

12. Design Center
Menus
Save Toolbar
Project Explorer
Connection Explorer
Project Explorer: Holds all project organized
metadata (also known as your design).
Connection Explorer: Holds all information
about physical locations and how these are
managed in control centers
Global Explorer: Holds all objects that are
shared among users across the repository. It
holds pre-built content, and you can create your
own content for sharing across projects.
Global Explorer

13. Projects
– A project is the highest-level object in Warehouse
Builder.
– You should have all the objects you need in one project,
as objects are not shareable across projects.
Project A
Data Mart
Mapping Warehouse
module-Finance
Transformations
Source module
Project B
Data Mart
Mapping Warehouse
module-Sales
Transformations
Source module

14. Objects in a Project
Projects
Project
navigator
tree

15. Objects Within a Project
Oracle modules
File module
Applications module
Process Flow module

16. Locations, Connectors,
and Control Centers
Oracle database location
Directory and DB connectors
SQL Server location
File location
SAP location
Workflow location
Discoverer location
Control centers

17. Global Explorer Objects
Custom transformations:
functions, procedures, and
packages
Pre-defined transformations
Public Experts
Security node seen
only by users granted
the ADMINISTRATOR role

18. Deleting a Project
You cannot delete the current
active or expanded project, or
the only project in a repository.

19. Setting Project Preferences

20. Setting Project Preferences

21. Scripting in Design Center
You can run OMB Plus
Tcl scripts to perform
any function available
in Design Center You can run OMB Plus
(for example, to create, in Design Center or in
modify, delete, import, a stand-alone
or examine your OWB command-line mode.
metadata).

22. Managing Deployment
with the Control Center Manager
Deployment
tree

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