2 Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved. Getting Started with Warehouse Builder

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Objectives After completing this lesson, you should be able to do the following: Log in to the Design Center client Navigate the user interface Create, open, navigate, and delete a project

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Lesson Agenda Overview of the Design Center –Dockable panels –Projects Navigator, Locations Navigator, Globals Navigator –Structure Panel, Property Inspector, Object Editors, Graphical Navigator –Help Menu –Control Center Manager OWB Projects –Objects within a project –Objects within an Oracle module Locations Navigator and Globals Navigator Creating and deleting a project Setting project preferences

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Logging In to OWB Design Center Run owb.sh located in the [ORACLE_HOME]/owb/bin/ folder to start the Design Center.

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved OWB 11.2 Uses the Oracle IDE Interface The standard Oracle IDE user interface for Oracle products

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Design Center: Start Page Navigate back and forth, print the content, change font size, or find specific content using these toolbar icons. Each of the tabs opens a new page with many related links that point to useful content on OWB Help Center. Some more documentation and external resources

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Design Center: Dockable Panels Component Palette Property Inspector Mapping Editor Graphical Navigator Structure Panel Navigator Panel F1 context sensitive help enables you to get help on the current panel. If you open multiple editors, each opens in a new tab

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Projects Navigator, Locations Navigator, and Globals Panel Projects Navigator: Holds all project organized metadata (also known as your design). Locations Navigator: Holds all information about physical locations and how these are managed in control centers Globals: Holds all objects that are shared among users across the workspace. It holds prebuilt content, and you can create your own content for sharing across projects.

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Structure Panel Structure Panel shows object's structure details dynamically as you select objects in the Projects Navigator. You can even view the details of the operators that are included in a mapping.

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Structure Panel Versus Object Editor Structure Panel Object Editor Multiple object editor tabs open as you double-click objects in the Projects Navigator. Click the tabs to view, define, and configure the object structure. For example, click the Indexes tab to add indexes on the table or the Partitions tab to define or configure the partitions.

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Property Inspector The new Property Inspector panel shows all the properties of the selected object in a single place.

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Graphical Navigator Is a graphical scratch pad Is an empty space on which you can drop your object to show it with structurally related objects

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Graphical Navigator Graphical Navigator allows multiple objects to be defined in a single graphical interface.

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Advanced Find Searches for objects in the selected panel (Projects navigator tree, Mapping editor, Process flow editor, structure panel, and so on) Supports search by using wildcard characters and pattern- matching by using regular expressions

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Advanced Find Searches for objects in the selected panel (Navigator Tree, editor canvas, or Structure Panel) Supports search by using wildcard characters and pattern- matching by using regular expressions

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Help Menu and the OWB Help Center Help Center

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Help Menu and the OWB Help Center Session Properties About

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Managing Deployment with the Control Center Manager Control Center Manager is the GUI where you view and manage all aspects of object deployment and execution of processes and mappings

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Quiz From the following list, select the panel you will use to view and set the current object's properties: a.Graphical Navigator b.Property Inspector panel

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Quiz You use the Control Center Manager to view and manage all aspects of object deployment and execution of processes and mappings. a.True b.False

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Lesson Agenda Overview of the Design Center –Dockable panels –Projects Navigator, Locations Navigator, Globals Navigator –Structure Panel, Property Inspector, Object Editors, Graphical Navigator –Help Menu –Control Center Manager OWB Projects –Objects within a project –Objects within an Oracle module Locations Navigator and Globals Navigator Creating and deleting a project Setting project preferences

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Projects A project is the highest-level object in Warehouse Builder. Source module Mapping Transformations Mapping Transformations Warehouse module-Sales Project A Project B Warehouse module-Finance Data Mart Source module

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Objects in a Project Applications Oracle Modules Files Module Data Watch and Repair Non-Oracle Database Modules Template Mappings

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Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Objects Within a Project Data Profile and Data Rules Pluggable Mappings Modules Process Flow Module and Packages

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Objects Within a Project OBI EE and OBI SE Modules Schedules User-Defined Modules Application Servers

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Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Objects Within a Project Experts Configurations Collections

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Objects Within an Oracle Module Mappings Dimensions Cubes Tables

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Objects Within a Module External Tables Views and Materialized Views Sequences

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Objects Within a Module Transformations Data Auditors User Defined Types Queues

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Foldering provides the ability to create and maintain a hierarchy of nested user folders inside the OWB project. You can create folders within: –Oracle Database modules and non-Oracle Database modules –Process flow modules –Pluggable Mapping Folders node –Template Mappings node –Oracle E-Business Suite application modules, PeopleSoft application modules, and Siebel modules Organizing Metadata Using Foldering

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved For example, you can right-click an Oracle module and select New to create a new user folder. Organizing Metadata Using Foldering

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Organizing Metadata Using Foldering You can import objects directly into a user folder. Right-click the folder and select the Import option. Objects must be copy-pasted from one folder to another if you want to organize after import.

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Lesson Agenda Overview of the Design Center –Dockable panels –Projects Navigator, Locations Navigator, Globals Navigator –Structure Panel, Property Inspector, Object Editor Graphical Navigator –Help Menu –Control Center Manager OWB Projects –Objects within a project –Object within an Oracle module Locations Navigator and Globals Navigator Creating and deleting a project Setting project preferences

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Locations, Connectors, and Control Centers Oracle database locations DB Connectors Files location Workflow location OBI EE and OBI SE locations Non-Oracle locations

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Locations, Connectors, and Control Centers Control Centers Control Center Agents

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Globals Navigator Objects Public Application Servers Public Transformations

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Globals Navigator Objects Public Code Templates Icons Sets Public Data Rules

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Globals Navigator Objects Security node seen only by users granted the ADMINISTRATOR role Public Experts Configuration Templates

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Lesson Agenda Overview of the Design Center –Dockable panels –Projects Navigator, Locations Navigator, Globals Navigator –Structure Panel, Property Inspector, Object Editor Graphical Navigator –Help Menu –Control Center Manager OWB Projects –Objects within a project –Object within an Oracle module Locations Navigator and Globals Navigator Creating and deleting a project Setting project preferences

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Creating a Project

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Deleting a Project You cannot delete the current active or expanded project, or the only project in a repository.

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Lesson Agenda Overview of the Design Center –Dockable panels –Projects Navigator, Locations Navigator, Globals Navigator –Structure Panel, Property Inspector, Object Editor Graphical Navigator –Help Menu –Control Center Manager OWB Projects –Objects within a project –Object within an Oracle module Locations Navigator and Globals Navigator Creating and deleting a project Setting project preferences

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Setting Project Preferences

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Setting Project Preferences

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Setting Project Preferences

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved The Recent Logon field enables retention of logon information on a client machine. Recent Logon Drop-Down List

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved You can set the "Maximum Logons Remembered" to a value greater than 1 to get a drop-down list of recent logons. If you set it to 0, no logon values are preserved. If you set it to 1, the behavior is similar to OWB 11g R1, in which case, the Recent Logon field itself is not displayed in the dialog box. Enabling Recent Logon List

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Scripting in Design Center To get the OMB*Plus view in the Design Center, from View menu select OMB*Plus. To start it in a stand- alone, command-line mode, run [ORACLE_HOME]/owb/bin/unix/OMBPlus.sh

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Quiz In Globals Navigator, the Security node is available to both the workspace users and owners. a.True b.False

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Quiz Which one from the following is a flexible, high-level command- line scripting utility for Oracle Warehouse Builder: a.SQL*Plus b.OMB*Plus

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Summary In this lesson, you should have learned how to: Log in to the Design Center client Navigate the user interface Create, open, navigate, and delete a project

Copyright © 2009, Oracle. All rights reserved Practice 2-1 Overview: Examining the Design Center Interface This practice covers the following topics: Logging in to Warehouse Builder Design Center client Examining the MY_PROJECT project Viewing project properties Navigating through the user interface