Oracle Database 10g: Implement and Administer Data Warehouses I
This course considers how to build, implement, tune and utilize data warehouses with Oracle technology. Logical data warehouse concepts are considered such as dimension tables, fact tables and star schemas. Implementing such logical concepts using the Oracle database is then presented including defining dimensions, hierarchies, measures and other objects. Physical implementation techniques are considered such as bitmap indexes, materialized views, and others. Emphasis is placed on the parallel execution features of the database and how these can yield significant performance advantages.
- Cost: Price on application
- Duration: 3 days
- This course is not available as part of our public schedule but can be provided on a customised client specific basis.
Oracle Database 10g: Implement Parallel SQL & Partitioning For Data Warehouses and Oracle Database 10g: SQL Tuning
• DATA WAREHOUSE CONCEPTS
• ETT / ETL
• DATA WAREHOUSE SCHEMAS
• The EQUITIES Data Model
• PHYSICAL DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS
• ABOUT MATERIALIZED VIEWS
• CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEWS
• STORAGE & TABLESPACE Clauses
• PARALLEL & PARTITION BY Clauses
• BUILD Clause
• Specifying The SELECT Clause
• Including The ORDER BY Clause
• NESTED MATERIALIZED VIEWS
• ALTER MATERIALIZED VIEW
• DROP MATERIALIZED VIEW
• DATA DICTIONARY STORAGE
• USER_MVIEWS Example
• USING EM
• ABOUT MATERIALIZED VIEW REFRESH
• REFRESH METHODS
• CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW LOG
• ALTER MATERIALIZED VIEW LOG
• DROP MATERIALIZED VIEW LOG
• REFRESH MODES
• ON COMMIT Considerations
• PERFORMING REFRESH OPERATIONS
• DATA DICTIONARY REFRESH METADATA
• USING EM
• ENABLING QUERY REWRITE
• VIEWING EXECUTION PLANS
• Create PLAN_TABLE
• CONTROLLING QUERY REWRITE
• NOREWRITE
• REWRITE
• UTILIZING CONSTRAINTS WITH QUERY REWRITE
• ENABLE VALIDATE Constraint Option
• ENABLE NOVALIDATE Constraint Option
• DISABLE NOVALIDATE Constraint Option
• DISABLE VALIDATE Constraint Option
• RELY Constraint Option
• ENFORCED Level
• TRUSTED Level
• STALE_TOLERATED Level
• QUERY REWRITE INFLUENCES
• WHAT ARE DIMENSIONS?
• CREATING & MAINTAINING DIMENSIONS
• ALTER DIMENSION
• DROP DIMENSION
• DIMENSION METADATA & VALIDATION
• Using DBMS_DIMENSION()
• Using EM
• DATA SAMPLING
• DIMENSION AGGREGATION TECHNIQUES
• Using ROLLUP()
• The GROUPING() Function
• Using CUBE()
• BUILDING THE DATA WAREHOUSE CUBE
• The EQUITIES Cube
• GROUPING_ID() Function
• CUBE() Vs. GROUPING SETS()
• WHAT IS A STAR QUERY?
• A STAR TRANSFORMATION SCENARIO
• ENCOURAGING STAR TRANSFORMATION
• STAR TRANSFORMATION HINTS
• FACT Hint
• ABOUT THE EXTRACTION OPTIONS
• Offline Extraction Methods
• USING EXTERNAL TABLES
• ORACLE_LOADER ACCESS PARAMETERS
• RECORDS Parameter
• BADFILE Parameter
• LOGFILE Parameter
• DISCARDFILE Parameter
• LOAD WHEN Parameter
• SKIP Parameter
• The LOCATION Clause
• REJECT LIMIT Clause
• FIELDS TERMINATED BY Parameter
• MISSING FIELD VALUES Parameter
• ORACLE_DATAPUMP ACCESS DRIVER
• MAINTAINING EXTERNAL TABLES
• USER_EXTERNAL_TABLES
• USER_EXTERNAL_LOCATIONS
• Using ALTER TABLE