Tools
for Data Warehouse in Oracle 11g or 10g
To enable, to quickly and efficiently create
and administer an Oracle data warehouse. The following are some of the
products, tools, and utilities you can use to achieve your goals with your data
warehouse:
Oracle Universal Installer:
Oracle Universal Installer installs
your Oracle software and options. It can automatically start the Database
Configuration Assistant (DBCA) to install a database.
Oracle Enterprise Manager:
The primary tool for managing your
database is Oracle Enterprise Manager, a Web-based interface. After you have
installed the Oracle software, created or upgraded a database, and configured
the network, you can use Oracle Enterprise
Manager for managing your database.
In addition, Oracle Enterprise Manager also provides an interface for
performance advisors and for Oracle utilities such as
SQL*Loader and Recovery Manager.
Oracle Warehouse
Builder:
The primary product for populating
and maintaining a data warehouse, Oracle
Warehouse Builder provides ETL,
data quality management, and metadata management functionality in a single
product.
Warehouse Builder includes a
unified repository hosted on an Oracle Database. Warehouse Builder leverages
Oracle Database functionality to generate code optimized for loading into and
maintaining Oracle Database targets.
Database Tuning Pack:
Oracle Database Tuning Pack offers
a set of new technologies that automate the entire database tuning process,
which significantly lowers database management costs and enhances performance
and reliability. The key features of Oracle Database Tuning Pack that will be
used in this guide are the SQL Access and SQL Tuning Advisors.
Analytic Workspace Manager Application Plug-ins:
This release of Analytic Workspace
Manager includes two application plug-ins:
1.
The Oracle Business
Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) Plug-in for Analytic Workspace Manager
(obieeplugin.jar) lets you quickly create an OBIEE 10g or 11g repository that
enables the OBIEE Server (and therefore any OBIEE client, including Dashboards,
Answers, Delivers, and the MS Office Plug-in) to query Oracle Database 11g OLAP
cubes.
2.
The Data Validation
Plug-in for Analytic Workspace Manager (datavplugin.jar) provides tests to
quickly find conditions in dimension table data that might cause errors when
maintaining an OLAP dimension or cause problems when querying a cube using
business intelligence tools. The data validation plug-in also includes methods
that can quickly fix many different types of data errors in dimension tables.
Please refer to the Review Guide for Data Validation Plug-in.pdf for a tutorial
on the use of the Data Validation Plug-in.
Oracle
Application Express:
Oracle
Application Express (Oracle APEX), is the low code web application development
tool for the Oracle database. Application Express enables you to design,
develop and deploy beautiful, responsive, database-driven applications, either
on-premises or in the cloud. Using only a web browser and limited programming
experience, you can rapidly develop and deploy professional applications that
are both fast and secure for any device from desktop to mobile. Oracle
Application Express combines the qualities of a low code tool such as
productivity, ease of use, and flexibility, with the qualities of an enterprise
development tool such as security, integrity, availability, availability and
built for the web. See how you can take advantage of this fully-supported,
no-cost feature of the Oracle Database by signing up for an account at apex.oracle.com.
