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Published inAug 2009
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Bob Griesemer
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Bob Griesemer

Bob Griesemer has over 27 years of software and database engineering/DBA experience in both government and industry, solving database problems, designing and loading data warehouses, developing code, leading teams of developers, and satisfying customers. He has been working in various roles involving database development and administration with the Oracle Database with every release since Version 6 of the database from 1993 to the present. He has also been performing various tasks, including data warehouse design and implementation, administration, backup and recovery, development of Perl code for web-based database access, writing Java code utilizing JDBC, migrating legacy databases to Oracle, and developing Developer/2000 Oracle Forms applications. He is currently an Oracle Database Administrator Certified Associate, and is employed by the Northrop Grumman Corporation, where he is currently a Senior Database Analyst on a large data warehouse project.
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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...

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Published in: Aug 2009Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781847195746

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Bob Griesemer

Bob Griesemer has over 27 years of software and database engineering/DBA experience in both government and industry, solving database problems, designing and loading data warehouses, developing code, leading teams of developers, and satisfying customers. He has been working in various roles involving database development and administration with the Oracle Database with every release since Version 6 of the database from 1993 to the present. He has also been performing various tasks, including data warehouse design and implementation, administration, backup and recovery, development of Perl code for web-based database access, writing Java code utilizing JDBC, migrating legacy databases to Oracle, and developing Developer/2000 Oracle Forms applications. He is currently an Oracle Database Administrator Certified Associate, and is employed by the Northrop Grumman Corporation, where he is currently a Senior Database Analyst on a large data warehouse project.
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