How to Create New RPD - Part1


Hi All,
   Through this post I'm explaining how to create the RPD for Sample SH schema in OBIEE 11g. This will be a good starting point for someone who wants to learn OBIEE10g. It covers the following,

1. Building Physical Layer 
2. Buiding BMM layer
3. Building Presentation Layer

Business Scenario:

Sales history schema comes with Oracle database as one of the sample schema. It explains a business scenario where company has products which are sold through multiple channels to customers with seasoned promotions to make the sales effective.

Tables of the SH Schema:                                                                                       

Table Name
COUNTRIES
CUSTOMERS
PRODUCTS
TIMES
PROMOTIONS
CHANNELS
SALES
COSTS


Relational Diagram between the tables:                                                                 




In Next Post, we will see How to import this tables into New SH rpd and how to build all three layers of repository.


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NQS Config.INI & instanceconfig.xml file

NQSConfig.INI file is the first file you have to know when you are started working with Administration Tool.

This file contains the information that which rpd is currently running in online, cache information, authentication types and etc.,

After the installation you can see two folder in the installed path.


i.e 1. Oracle BI  - Related Administration Tool
     2. Oracle BIData - Related to Presentation Server.

you can edit and can change the NQS confiq.INI file whenever you want from the following path.

C:\Oracle BI\Server\Config\ NQS Config.INI

and same like, If you have created any new catalog in the presentation services and want to make that default, then you have change the one more file .i.e instanceconfig.xml file.

instanceconfig.xml file is available in the the following path:

C:\Oracle BIData\Config\instanceconfig.xml

We will learn How to create new RPD and New catalog one by one in the coming post.


Keep Rocking!!!

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First things to Know after Installation of OBIEE 10g


In this post, We will lear How to create new RPD. Once the Installation is over, Start OC4J from windows OBIEE Installed application.

OC4J mean Oracle Container for Java, that manages all Java and GUI components and working here as Application Server.

After Installation is completed, If you are seeing the services, three new serivces will be created.

1. Start OC4J
2. Oracle BI Server
3. Oracle BI Presentation 

You can see the services, by typing "services.msc" in run command.

OC4J is the first service has to be started when you started working with OBIEE. 

Oracle BI Services is the core service for Administration Tool, if this services is running you can open your rpd file in online mode. 

Oracle BI Presentation Services is the service that using for accessing the Oracle Answers and BI Interactive Dashboard.


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Data Mining

Introduction: 
 
The core of Business Intelligence Applications is Data warehousing and the core of Data warehousing is Data Mining. If we are speaking the technical aspect, Data Mining is gathering knowledge from Data. So Knowledge of Data Discovery also part of the Data Mining. 

So Data mining is the important subject to know, if we are working in data warehousing.

Definition of  Data Mining:

Data mining is the entire process of applying computer-based methodology, including new techniques for knowledge discovery, from data.

Knowledge discover explains the step of process How to get the useful data from the Raw data.

From the below picture, you will know the knowledge discovery process.


Step 1:
The data is collected from various sources like spreadsheet, flatfiles, dmp, and etc., that is called Raw Data.

Step 2:
The collected raw data is integrated and cleansed to make a data warehousing. Data Integration is involving collect all the source data and making a single unit of system and cleaning Data involves removing or making Junk files and only keeping the necessary files that needed for data warehousing.

Step 3: 
 
The real process of Data mining starts from Data warehousing. So after integration and Cleansing of data, data is transforming into various subject area called Sales, Purchase, Finance and etc.,

Step 4:

So from the separated subject area, we are applying all the knowledge i.e Domain knowledge and we are giving the specific output from the data. 

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OLAP Vs OLTP

Introduction:

The constant growth of Data Analysis and Business Intelligence Applications, understanding OLAP and OLTP having the important Place.

The design of Data Warehouse and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) cubes is basically different than OnLine Transactional Processing (OLTP). 

OLTP:

Source of Data: OLTP is original Source of data that maintains the Day by Day transactions and processes for every Business.

Purpose of Data: To run and control the fundamental business task and record all the events inside.

OLTP Reveals the copy of the ongoing Business processes.

Insertion and Updation is very fast in OLTP and this operation is initiated by End Users. All the OLTP is Normalized one and Doesn't having any duplicate records in any situation.

In OLTP, the Query Processing is normally standardized and simple query that gives the result of few records.

The processing speed is very speed and the size of the OLTP  Size  (MB to GB) is very small compare with OLTP if historical data is archived.

Database design of OLTP is highly Normalized with many tables.

Backup & Recovery of OLTP:
Operation data is very critical to run the business and data loss is likely to entail and legal liablity.

OLAP:

The source of data of OLAP is OLTP, Consolidated from various OLTP Sources.

The Main aim of this data is to help reporting, Decision support, Data analyzing and for problem Solving.

This data reveals the Multi-Dimensional views of various kinds of business Activities.

Periodically Its long process to insert the data and update the data But retrieving the data from OLAP is easy.

Typicall the query processing in OLAP is long and tedious and often with complex queries involving aggregations.

The processing speed in OLTP depends upon the size of the data involved, that may batch processes and complex queries may take hours to one and query speed can be improved by creating Views ans Indexes.

The size of OLAP is very Large ( GB to TB) and It contains the consolidated data of OLTP with more aggregation structures and Historical data.

The database design of OLAP is in most cases de-normalized with the fewer tables and using Star or Snowflake schema.




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