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OWB 11gR2 - Creating Interval Partitions
Designing partitioned tables in OWB is done in the table editor in the partitioned tab, the partitions tab let’s you design and deploy complex partitioning strategies. Here we will see how to define an...
View ArticleCustom Java Activity for XML Loading
Always nice to see consultants post real-world scenarios using Oracle tools and technology. Michael Reitsma has posted an entry here on using custom java activities in process flows for loading large...
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OWB 11gR2 - MySQL and Data types
Thought I’d write a quick post on data type support for MySQL or any other system type for that matter to show some of the intricacies of why things happen. I was helping someone the other day import...
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Sting'ing in the rain?
Hopefully this is a good omen for the weather for the appreciation event tonight in San Francisco! Great seeing all of the ODI and OWB folks at OpenWorld this week!
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Generating XML with Experts
The leveraging XDB post (here) from a few years ago is one of the most actively read posts, since that was done there have been a few more updates on the expert posted within it. One of the updated...
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Example XDB/XML Mapping
The mapping to construct the XML for the example 3-46 in the XDB documentation can be found in the xdb_example_3_46.mdl MDL file. This MDL is for 11.2.0.2, so you will need at least that version. The...
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Parallel Processing with DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE
Here is another illustration of some of the powerful capabilities of the DBMS_PARALLEL_EXECUTE package in the Oracle database, carrying on from the earlier post here. One of the comments from that post...
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Debugging OWB generated SAP ABAP code executed through RFC
Within OWB if you need to execute ABAP code using RFC you will have to use the SAP Function Module RFC_ABAP_INSTALL_AND_RUN. This function module is specified during the creation of the SAP source...
View ArticleOWB 11gR2 - Windows and Linux 64-bit clients available
In addition to the integrated release of OWB in the 11.2.0.3 Oracle database distribution, the following 64-bit standalone clients are now available for download from Oracle Support. OWB 11.2.0.3...
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OWB – SQLLoader, big data files and logging
OWB’s flat file loading support is rich and there are a lot of configuration properties for mappings in general and the properties exposed for SQLLoader mappings are expansive. One of the things that...
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OWB 11gR2 – Windows and Linux 64-bit clients on OTN
The OWB 11.2.0.3 clients for Windows and Linux 64-bit clients are now on OTN for download at the link below;http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/warehouse/downloads/index.htmlYou should...
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OWB 11gR2 - Dimensional Modeling Paper
At the recent DOAG conference in November 2011, Maren Eschermann from Trivadis presented a session on Dimensional Modeling with OWB 11gR2. Maren has kindly posted an English translation of the...
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ODI Time Generation – SQL as a Source
Came across a nice use of the earlier SQL as a Source KM posting where the source was a time dimension generator. The forum entry is here, so the temporary interface is a data generator which when...
View ArticleODI 11g – More accelerator options
A few more options added into the interface accelerator that I blogged about earlier here in initial post and a later one here. Added options for doing position based and case sensitive/insensitive...
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ODI 11g – Interface Builder
In the previous blogs such as the one here I illustrated how to use the SDK to perform interface creation using various auto mapping options for generating 1:1 interfaces either using positional based...
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OWB Forum Reaches 50k
Congratulations OWB forum users, today you hit 50k messages on the OWB OTN forum! The forums are an active community oriented discussion site, you can find the ODI forum here, it is buzzing daily with...
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ODI 11g - Getting Scripting with Groovy
The addition of the groovy interpreter to the ODI designer now let’s you easily script any tasks that you repeatedly perform. The documentation has illustrations here, so using the ODI 11g SDK you can...
View ArticleODI 11g - Scripting the Model and Topology
Scripting is the ideal mechanism to automate start up and teardown for repeated tasks and those that you just want to automate. Here are a couple of more illustrations of how to easily construct a...
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ODI 11g – Expert Accelerator for Model Creation
Following on from my post earlier this morning on scripting model and topology creation tonight I thought I’d add a little UI to make those groovy functions a little more palatable. In OWB we have...
View ArticleODI 11g – Insight to the SDK
This post is a useful index into the ODI SDK that cross references the type names from the user interface with the SDK class and also the finder for how to get a handle on the object or objects. The...
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