Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g Getting Started Extract, transform, and load data to build a dynamic, operational data warehouse Bob Griesemer BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Anna Indahl on 12th August 2009 PSC 94 Box 361, , APO, , 09824 Oracle Warehouse Builder 11g: Getting Started Copyright © 2009 Packt Publishing All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embedded in critical articles or reviews Every effort has been made in the preparation of this book to ensure the accuracy of the information presented However, the information contained in this book is sold without warranty, either express or implied Neither the author, nor Packt Publishing and its dealers and distributors will be held liable for any damages caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by this book Packt Publishing has endeavored to provide trademark information about all of the companies and products mentioned in this book by the appropriate use of capitals However, Packt Publishing cannot guarantee the accuracy of this information First published: August 2009 Production Reference: 1300709 Published by Packt Publishing Ltd 32 Lincoln Road Olton Birmingham, B27 6PA, UK ISBN 978-1-847195-74-6 www.packtpub.com Cover Image by Parag Kadam (paragvkadam@gmail.com) Download at Boykma.Com This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Anna Indahl on 12th August 2009 PSC 94 Box 361, , APO, , 09824 Credits Author Editorial Team Leader Bob Griesemer Abhijeet Deobhakta Reviewers Project Team Leader Anitha Kadaru Lata Basantani Yasodarani Venkatesan Project Coordinators Acquisition Editor Ashwin Shetty James Lumsden Neelkanth Mehta Development Editor Swapna V Verlekar Indexer Rekha Nair Technical Editors Proofreader Arani Roy Reshma Sundaresan Chris Smith Production Coordinator Copy Editor Adline Swetha Jesuthas Sneha Kulkarni Cover Work Adline Swetha Jesuthas Download at Boykma.Com This material is copyright and is licensed for the sole use by Anna Indahl on 12th August 2009 PSC 94 Box 361, , APO, , 09824 About the Author Bob Griesemer has over 27 years of software and database engineering/DBA experience in both government and industry, solving database problems, designing and loading data warehouses, developing code, leading teams of developers, and satisfying customers He has been working in various roles involving database development and administration with the Oracle Database with every release since Version of the database from 1993 to the present He has also been performing various tasks, including data warehouse design and implementation, administration, backup and recovery, development of Perl code for web-based database access, writing Java code utilizing JDBC, migrating legacy databases to Oracle, and developing Developer/2000 Oracle Forms applications He is currently an Oracle Database Administrator Certified Associate, and is employed by the Northrop Grumman Corporation, where he is the Senior Database Engineer and primary data warehouse ETL specialist for a large data warehouse project I would like to thank my two co-workers, Anitha Kadaru and Yasodarani Venkatesan, who were kind enough to review this book With their wealth of knowledge of data warehousing and Business Intelligence, they provided invaluable comments that helped me keep the book on track I'd like to thank David Allan of the Oracle Warehouse Builder development team at Oracle for putting up with my numerous questions and requests for clarification about various aspects of the software Lastly and most importantly, I'd like to thank my wife Lynn and children Robby, Melanie, Hilary, Christina, Millie, and Mikey for doing without a husband and dad for major periods of time over the last year, while I worked on this book Your understanding and support has been a big help! 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