Dylan’s BI Study Notes

My notes about Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, OLAP, and Master Data Management

Archive for July, 2008

Data Security in Oracle BI Apps

Posted by Dylan Wan on July 15, 2008

I am describing how data security works in Oracle BI Apps.

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Use ANSI SQL for Outer Join

Posted by Dylan Wan on July 4, 2008

The OLTP source applications like PeopleSoft and Siebel applications can run on many different databases including Oracle, MS SQL, or DB2. The target data warehouse can also run on different database platforms, incluidng the above databases, plus Teradata.

Various technologies can be used to enable the cross database platform support in the pre-packaged BI apps. Oracle BI Enterprise Edition allows you configure the database connections using the native drivers. ODBC can also be used to access different databases.

In order to deliver to deliver the pre-packaged ETL adapters, two technologies can be used : ANSI SQL and ETL tool specific SQL. It is preferable to avoid the dependency on the ETL plarform and use ANSI SQL92 syntax. When we move from ETL to ELT, Read the rest of this entry »

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