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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Fundamentals of Data Warehousing

  • Defining the data warehouse concept
  • Advantages of warehousing for analytics and reporting
  • Warehousing capabilities in Oracle Database 19c

Oracle Data Warehouse Architecture

  • Core elements: source data, ETL, staging, and presentation layers
  • Comparison of star and snowflake schema designs
  • Oracle tools for administering DW environments

Data Modeling Principles

  • Understanding fact and dimension tables
  • Surrogate keys and data granularity
  • Basics of Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD)

Overview of ETL Workflows

  • Introduction to ETL and compatible Oracle tools
  • Batch loading versus real-time data ingestion
  • Common challenges in data integration and quality assurance

Querying and Reporting Principles

  • Distinguishing between OLAP and OLTP workloads
  • Methods Oracle uses to optimize warehouse queries
  • Introduction to materialized views and data aggregation

Planning and Scaling Oracle Warehouses

  • Hardware and architectural considerations
  • Advantages of partitioning and data compression
  • Overview of Oracle licensing and available features

Use Cases and Best Practices

  • Analytical case studies on warehouse design
  • Best practices for planning Oracle DW initiatives
  • Initiation of a pilot implementation strategy

Recap and Future Directions

Requirements

  • Familiarity with relational database structures
  • Foundational proficiency in SQL
  • No previous experience with Oracle data warehousing is necessary

Target Audience

  • Data analysts
  • IT personnel intending to engage with Oracle warehousing solutions
  • Business intelligence teams

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