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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c

You're reading from   Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c Build your organization's Business Intelligence system

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464712
Length 578 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Adrian Ward Adrian Ward
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Haroun Khan Haroun Khan
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Oracle BI 12c Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing the Prerequisite Software 3. Installing on Windows Server 2012 4. Reviewing the Features of the Reporting Repository 5. Installing and Configuring Client Tools 6. Understanding the Systems Management Tools 7. Developing the BI Server Repository 8. Creating Dashboards and Analyses 9. Agents and Action Framework 10. Developing Reports Using BI Publisher 11. Usage Tracking 12. Improving Performance 13. Using the BI Admin Change Management Utilities 14. Ancillary Installation Options 15. Reporting Databases 16. Customizing the Style of Dashboards 17. Upgrading to 12c

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Acronyms

Definitions

ETL

Extract, Transform, and Load: The process of taking data from a source system into a warehouse.

SQL

Structured Query Language: The basic language that databases such as Oracle and SQL Server understand. SQL is used to create data, create database objects such as tables, and to query data.

Performance Data

I use this term to describe any data which helps to speed up reporting performance. This includes creating aggregate tables, for example the Tournament Fact table. It also includes the use of subsets of data, partitioning of tables, and indexing.

Star Transformation

A special feature of Oracle databases is their ability to maximize the performance of a query that uses a star design table layout. Oracle can build a more efficient query than usual due to the fact that it knows all Dimensions join to the Fact table.

Hints

Hints are used to help an Oracle database to query the tables in the most efficient manner. This could include...

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