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