Summary

That was a lot of information presented in this chapter. We began with a brief discussion about the source data for our scenario using the ACME Toys and Gizmos company. We then went through the process of importing metadata about our sources, and saw how to import metadata from an Oracle database as well as a flat file. Because we are dealing with a non-Oracle database, we were also exposed to configuring the Oracle database to communicate with a non-Oracle database using Oracle Heterogeneous Services. We also saw how to configure it for generic connectivity using the supplied ODBC agent. We worked through the process of manually creating table definitions for source tables for a SQL Server database.

At this point, you should run through these procedures to import or define the remaining tables that were identified in the source databases. For this, you can use the procedures we walked through above for practice. We'll be using the SQL Server database tables for the POS transactional...