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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

Chapter 15. Reporting Databases

"It's all about the database" - Anonymous.

No book on Oracle BI would be complete without introducing the concepts of a reporting database.

Just to be clear, Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) is neither a database nor a storage system for data. OBIEE grabs data from a source (which is normally a database), and sends it to your screen (or e-mail, PDF, and so on) in a presentable format.

As discussed in previous chapters, the source data can be held in a variety of formats including, but not limited to, spreadsheets, tables, and XML. However, for most large implementations, a database is the only suitable source. If there are millions or even billions of data items, then a database is crucial. Moreover, a well-structured and well-maintained database is essential for the very survival of an OBIEE project. Size matters when it comes to design: the bigger the database, the better the design needs to be; otherwise it...

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