Oracle Warehouse Builder 10.2 - Click by Click

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Oracle Warehouse Builder 10.2 - Click by Click

February 8, 2007

Jim RaperData Administration Manager

BSS/ITCity of Charlotte

jraper@ci.charlotte.nc.us

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DISCLAIMER

The views and opinions presented in this paper are solely those of the Author and do not necessarily reflect those of Business Support Services Information Technology Division or of the City of Charlotte. This material is provided for informational purposes only. City of Charlotte assumes no responsibility for accuracy of the information in this paper or from damages caused by implemented the techniques or methodologies presented herein.

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Building a Mapping of PeopleSoft Data

• Join Two Tables

• Build a Key Lookup

• “Clean” or Transform Data with an Expression

• Upsert Target Table with Results

• Deploy and Run Mapping

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10gR2 Banner

OWB 9i

OWB 10gR2

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10gR2 Banner

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Log into Design Center

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New Design Center Layout

Project Explorer Pane

Connection Pane

Global Explorer

Pane

Tool Bar

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Highlight Project Area

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Project Expands

Expand Databases

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Available Databases

Expand Oracle

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Logical Oracle Content Areas

Expand PeopleSoft

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Module Components

Expand Mappings

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Warehouse Cycle of Mappings

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Open Satellite Mapping

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Mapping We Plan to End Up With

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Mapping Flow

Key Lookup

Transformations

Target Table

Unique Key Generator

Join Tables

Source Tables

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End Result

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Joining Tables With 10.2

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Join ODS and Hub Tables

JOIN OBJECT

HUB

ODS

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Select Joiner from Palette

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Joiner Object

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Connect Source Fields to Joiner Object

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Open Details to Name

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Common Field Names given _1

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Give Join a Name and Description

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Build Join Conditions

Joiner Properties Palette

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Pick Fields from Input 1 and 2

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Creating a Key Lookup

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Purpose of Key Lookup

• Another Way to Join to a Table

• Primary use is to provide values from Table of Values

• Use when an Equijoin may eliminate rows

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Select Key Lookup

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Key Lookup Wizard

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Defaults to “key lookup”

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Enter Meaningful Object Name

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Enter Purpose of Lookup

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Input and Output Step

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Minimum: Enter Short Description

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List of Possible Sources

List of Objects on the Mapping

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Select the Source

Select ‘Join’ Object

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Open Join Output Group

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Use Scroll Bar to Find Field(s)

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Click on Choice

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Click Transfer Arrow

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Business Unit Code Moved

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Search for Table to Use for Lookup

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Click on Selection

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Match Sides of Equijoin

Primary or Natural Key Fields in Lookup Table Join Object Fields for Equal Join

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What Happens With No Match?

Default Passes Nulls as Output, Or you enter default values field by field

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About Finished

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Summary of the Key Lookup Process

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Key Lookup Ready to Pass Data

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Drag and Drop Connection -1

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Drag and Drop Connection - 2

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Drag and Drop Connection -3

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Validate Mapping

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Validation Completed Successfully

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Data Transformation

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Use of Expressions

• “Clean” the Data, handle nulls, etc.

• Conform the Data – all CAPS, etc

• Conditional Logic – if then else

• Dig out data from strings – Substring

• Etc

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Populate Expression

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Expression Output

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Edit Output Fields

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Common Expression Transforms

• Trim off Blanks from character fields TRIM(INGRP1.CHAR_FLD_NAME)

• Select portions of fields SUBSTR(INGRP1.NUMBER_FLD_NAME,1,5)

• Handle Null Values NVL(INGRP1.FLD_NAME,’U’)

• Convert to Upper Case UPPER(INGRP1.FLD_NAME)

• Convert Characters to Numbers TO_NUMBER(INGRP1.FLD_NAME)• If … then …Else Logic

CASE Statement• Compound Expressions and Functions

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Define Expressions

Highlight Field

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Expression Builder Popup

Build Transform Logic

Validate Logic

Accept Expression Click OK

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Connect Output to Next Object

Expand Target Object

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Drag and Drop One Field at a Time

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Drag and Drop All at Once

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Expression Mapped to Target

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Generating Unique Keys

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Satellite Table Needs Unique PK

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Sequence Near Bottom of Palette

Use Scroll Bar, Drag and Drop Sequence Object

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Expand Sequence Generator

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Select Next Value

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Drag and Drop to Target Field

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Define Output Result

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Set Operation on Target Table

Expand Loading Type

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Loading Alternatives

Select Upsert

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Set Record Upsert Match

Expand Constraint for Options

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Select Natural Key

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Mapping is Ready to Deploy

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Deploy and Run Mapping

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Deploy From Control Center

Click On Tools

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Deploy and Run Control

Select Control Center Manager

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Configure the Running

Right Click

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Run Configuration

Select Configure

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Operating Mode

Select Operating Mode

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Run in Set or Row Based Mode

Select Row Based

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Changed None

Click Default

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Deploy Changed

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Generate the Mapping Script

Generating PL/SQL Script

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Mapping Executing

Running PL/SQL Script

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Executing the Mapping

Executing the Mapping

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Job Completed

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Questions?

Jim RaperData Administration Manager

City of Charlotte600 E. 4th Str

Charlotte, NC 28202704 336 8068

jraper@ci.charlotte.nc.us