Oracle Warehouse Builder Installation And Admin... ((TOP))
For this book, the platform is Windows Vista with Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1.0.6) Enterprise Edition (which is the most recent version as of this writing), which is available from the download site. The Enterprise Edition of the database was chosen because it allows us to make full use of the features of the Warehouse Builder, especially in the area of dimensional modelling. There are some errors that will be generated by the client software when running in the Standard Edition installation due to code dependencies. These code dependencies are in libraries that are installed with the Enterprise Edition, but not the Standard Edition. We could use OWB with the Standard Edition, but then we would be limited in the type of objects we could deploy. For instance, dimensions and cubes would be problematic, and without using them we'd be missing out on a major functionality provided by the tool. If we want to develop any reasonably-sized data warehouse, the Enterprise Edition is the way to go.
Oracle Warehouse Builder Installation and Admin...
Oracle recommends a convention for naming folders and files that they call the Optimal Flexible Architecture (OFA). This is described in Appendix B of the Oracle Database Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows, which can be found at the following URL: _01/install.111/b32006/ofa.htm#CBBEDHEB. It is a good idea to follow their recommendations for standardization so that others who have to work with the database files will know where to find them, and to save us from problems with possible conflicts with other Oracle products we may have installed. If we keep the default folder locations intact and only change the drive letter, we will adhere to the standard. We'll be asked to choose our installation method and whether to install a starter database. We're not going to let it install a starter database for us because it's going to default to a transactional database and we want a data warehouse. So on the Select Installation Method screen, we'll check off the Basic Installation type and uncheck the box for installing a starter database. The Select Installation Method screen should look similar to the following:
We will have a chance to visit each one of these areas in much more detail as we progress through the design and build of our data warehouse. However, first there is one more installation step we have to take before we can begin using the Warehouse Builder. The Repository must be configured for use and a workspace must be defined.
That's it. We've gone through the install process of the Oracle 11g database. It automatically installs the Warehouse Builder components as well as the OWBSYS database user. We've also gone through a standalone installation of the OWB client on a separate workstation and have run Repository Assistant to configure our first workspace. We've also discussed the architecture of the Warehouse Builder components as they are now installed on our system. OWB is now installed and ready to use, so we can begin our project of designing and installing a data warehouse.
Access this account during the installation process to define the base language of the repository and to define Warehouse Builder workspaces and users. A data warehouse is a relational or multidimensional database that is designed for query and analysis.
At Step 10, I go ahead and select the username STEWART to be added as a workspace user, and then select next. I then get a summary screen, where I press Finish. Immediately, I get an error involving the installation of the OWBSYS user. The actual exception is "oracle.ide.ExitNotAllowedException" in the process called "processLoadJavaToken". 041b061a72