Name: Data Warehouse Database Design
Course Code: OR11803
Duration: 2
Scheduled Dates for OR11803
In this course, students are presented with the basic concepts, fundamental issues, and techniques for the design of a data warehouse or data mart. Students examine all phases and tasks of the data warehouse design process, including business modeling, entity relationship diagramming, dimensional modeling, physical modeling, and warehouse meta data management. Participants use a case study to apply these concepts and methods. Group discussions and practices are included.
Target Audience
Database Administrators
Data Warehouse Designer
Implementation Team
Data Warehouse Administrator
Key Topics
- Reviewing Data Warehouse Basics
- Describing the features and characteristics of a data warehouse
- Identifying the components and functionality of an Oracle data warehouse environment using the Common -Warehouse Model
- Defining the Business & Logical Models
- Describing the enterprise level strategic analysis tasks
- Defining components of business modeling
- Creating the Dimensional Model
- Describing attributes of a star model
- Identifying fact tables and their attributes from business measure entities
- Creating the Physical Model
- Translating the dimensional model into a physical model
- Discussing the architectural requirements for the data warehouse
- Storage Considerations for the Physical Model
- Explaining data warehouse sizing techniques and test load sampling
- Describing data warehousing indexing types and strategies
- Strategies for Extracting, Transforming, and Transporting
- Outlining the extraction, transformation, and transportation processes for building a data warehouse
- Identifying extraction, transformation, and transportation issues
- Summary Management
- Discussing summary management and Oracle implementation of summaries
- Describing materialized views
- Analytical Capabilities
- Defining Business Intelligence (BI)
- Understanding the categories of BI and their use within the data warehouse
Objectives
- Analyze and transform business requirements into a business model
- Describe the role of meta data in data warehouse design and strategies to define and maintain meta data
- Explain the central concepts of dimensional data models
- Use entity relationship diagrams to transform the business model into a dimensional model
- Evaluate summaries and understand the value of materialized views
- Transform the dimensional model into a physical data design
- Define the process of designing a data warehouse database model
- Understand multidimensional query concepts
Required Skills/Experience
- In-depth understanding of data warehousing concepts
- Familiarity with data modeling and relational database design
- Data Warehousing Fundamentals
Suggested Next Course(s)
- Oracle iDS: Implement Warehouse Builder
Fee: $1,200.00
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