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Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Related Oracle Resources
• Conventions

1 Introduction to Oracle Retail Data Model Customization

• What is the Oracle Retail Data Model?
  • Components of the Oracle Retail Data Model
  • Oracle Products That Make Up Oracle Retail Data Model
• Steps for Implementing an Oracle Retail Data Model Warehouse
• Before You Begin Customizing the Oracle Retail Data Model
  • Prerequisite Knowledge for Implementors
  • Responsibilities of a Data Warehouse Governance Committee
• Managing Metadata for Oracle Retail Data Model
  • Metadata Categories and Standards
  • Working with a Metadata Repository
  • Browsing the Metadata Repository Supplied With Oracle Retail Data Model
  • Using the Metadata Generation Packages
  • Using Oracle Warehouse Builder with the Oracle Retail Data Model
• Performing Fit-Gap Analysis for Oracle Retail Data Model

2 Physical Model Customization

• Characteristics of the Default Physical Model
• Customizing the Oracle Retail Data Model Physical Model
  • Questions to Answer Before You Customize the Physical Model
  • Conventions When Customizing the Physical Model
• Foundation Layer Customization
  • Common Change Scenarios When Customizing the Foundation Layer of Oracle Retail Data Model
  • Example of Changing the Foundation Layer of the Oracle Retail Data Model
• General Recommendations When Designing Physical Structures
  • Tablespaces in Oracle Retail Data Model
  • Data Compression in Oracle Retail Data Model
    • Types of Data Compression Available
  • Surrogate Keys in the Physical Model
  • Integrity Constraints in Oracle Retail Data Model
  • Indexes and Partitioned Indexes in Oracle Retail Data Model
  • Partitioned Tables in Oracle Retail Data Model
    • Partitioning the Oracle Retail Data Model for Manageability
    • Partitioning the Oracle Retail Data Model for Easier Data Access
    • Partitioning the Oracle Retail Data Model for Join Performance
  • Parallel Execution in Oracle Retail Data Model
    • Enabling Parallel Execution for a Session
    • Enabling Parallel Execution of DML Operations
    • Enabling Parallel Execution at the Table Level

3 Access Layer Customization

• Introduction to Customizing the Access Layer of Oracle Retail Data Model
• Derived Tables in the Oracle Retail Data Model
  • Creating New Derived Tables for Calculated Data
  • Customizing Oracle Retail Data Model Data Mining Models
    • Creating a New Data Mining Model for Oracle Retail Data Model
    • Modifying Oracle Retail Data Model Data Mining Models
    • Tutorial: Customizing the Customer Life Time Value Prediction Data Mining Model
• Dimensional Components in the Oracle Retail Data Model
  • Characteristics of a Dimensional Model
  • Characteristics of Relational Star and Snowflake Tables
    • Declaring Relational Dimension Tables
    • Validating Relational Dimension Tables
  • Characteristics of the OLAP Dimensional Model
    • Oracle OLAP Cube Views
    • Cube Materialized Views
  • Characteristics of the OLAP Cubes in Oracle Retail Data Model
  • Defining New Oracle OLAP Cubes for Oracle Retail Data Model
  • Changing an Oracle OLAP Cube in Oracle Retail Data Model
  • Creating a Forecast Cube for Oracle Retail Data Model
  • Choosing a Cube Partitioning Strategy for Oracle Retail Data Model
  • Choosing a Cube Data Maintenance Method for Oracle Retail Data Model
• Materialized Views in the Oracle Retail Data Model
  • Types of Materialized Views and Refresh options
    • Refresh Options for Materialized Views with Aggregates
    • Refresh Options for Materialized Views Containing Only Joins
    • Refresh Options for Nested Materialized Views
  • Choosing Indexes for Materialized Views
  • Partitioning and Materialized Views
  • Compressing Materialized Views

4 ETL Implementation and Customization

• The Role of ETL in the Oracle Retail Data Model
• Creating Source-ETL for Oracle Retail Data Model
  • Source-ETL Design Considerations
  • ETL Architecture for Oracle Retail Data Model Source-ETL
  • Creating a Source to Target Mapping Document for the Source-ETL
  • Designing a Plan for Rectifying Source-ETL Data Quality Problems
  • Designing Source-ETL Workflow and Jobs Control
  • Designing Source-ETL Exception Handling
  • Writing Source-ETL that Loads Efficiently
    • Using a Staging Area for Flat Files
    • Preparing Raw Data Files for Source-ETL
    • Source-ETL Data Loading Options
    • Parallel Direct Path Load Source-ETL
    • Partition Exchange Load for Oracle Retail Data Model Source-ETL
• Customizing Intra-ETL for the Oracle Retail Data Model
  • ORDM_DERIVED_FLW
  • ORDM_AGG_N_DEP_FLW
  • ORDM_AGG_DEP_FLW
  • OLAP_MAP Mapping Flow
  • ORDM_MNNG_FLW
• Performing an Initial Load of an Oracle Retail Data Model Warehouse
  • Executing the Default Oracle Retail Data Model Intra-ETL
    • Executing the ORDM_INTRA_ETL_FLW Workflow from Oracle Warehouse Builder
    • Executing the Intra-ETL Without Using Oracle Warehouse Builder
• Refreshing the Data in Oracle Retail Data Model Warehouse
  • Refreshing Oracle Retail Data Model Relational Tables and Views
  • Refreshing Oracle Retail Data Model OLAP Cubes
  • Refreshing Oracle Retail Data Model Data Mining Models
• Managing Errors During Oracle Retail Data Model Intra-ETL Execution
  • Monitoring the Execution of the Intra-ETL Process
  • Recovering an Intra ETL Process
  • Troubleshooting Intra-ETL Performance
    • Checking the Execution Plan
    • Monitoring PARALLEL DML Executions
    • Troubleshooting Data Mining Model Creation

5 Report and Query Customization

• Reporting Approaches in Oracle Retail Data Model
• Customizing Oracle Retail Data Model Reports
• Writing Your Own Queries and Reports
• Optimizing Star Queries
• Troubleshooting Oracle Retail Data Model Report Performance
• Writing As Is and As Was Queries
  • Characteristics of an As Is Query
  • Characteristics of an As Was Query
  • Examples: As Is and As Was Queries
• Tutorial: Creating a New Oracle Retail Data Model Dashboard
• Tutorial: Creating a New Oracle Retail Data Model Report

6 Metadata Collection and Reports

• Metadata Collection and Population
  • Load LDM/PDM Metadata (Table MD_ENTY)
    • GIVE_ABBRV
    • MD_DM_ALL_ENT_ATTR
    • PL/SQL Program to Update Column Name
    • PL/SQL program to insert initial data into MD_OIDM_ATTR_COL_NAM
    • PL/SQL program to load data into MD_ENTY
  • Load Program (Intra-ETL) Metadata (Table MD_PRG)
  • Load Reports and KPI Metadata (Table MD_KPI and MD_REF_ENTY_KPI):
• Metadata Reports and Dashboard

7 Multi-Currency Support and Configuration

• Multi-Currency Overview
• Multi-Currency Data Field Naming Conventions
• Multi-Currency Data Movement
  • Movement from Interface to Base Tables
    • Handling Currency at the Base Level
  • Movement from Base to Derived Tables
  • Movement from Derived to Aggregate Tables
    • Handling Data Movement from Base to Derived and Aggregate Layers
• Currency Data Flow
• Currency DWC_CRNCY_CONF Table

A Sizing and Configuring an Oracle Retail Data Model Warehouse

• Sizing an Oracle Retail Data Model Warehouse
• Configuring a Balanced System for Oracle Retail Data Model
  • Maintaining High Throughput in an Oracle Retail Data Model Warehouse
  • Configuring I/O in an Oracle Retail Data Model for Bandwidth not Capacity
  • Planning for Growth of Your Oracle Retail Data Model
  • Testing the I/O System Before Building the Oracle Retail Data Model Warehouse
  • Balanced Hardware Configuration Guidelines for Oracle Retail Data Model

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