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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Introduction to Data Warehousing

  • Defining a data warehouse
  • The value of warehousing in analytics and reporting
  • How Oracle Database 19c supports warehousing capabilities

Oracle Data Warehouse Architecture

  • Essential components: source data, ETL, staging, and presentation layers
  • Comparison of star and snowflake schemas
  • Oracle utilities for managing DW environments

Data Modeling Principles

  • Fact and dimension tables
  • Surrogate keys and data granularity
  • Foundations of slowly changing dimensions (SCD)

Overview of ETL Processes

  • Introduction to ETL and Oracle-compatible tools
  • Batch loading versus real-time loading
  • Obstacles related to data integration and quality

Querying and Reporting Fundamentals

  • Distinguishing OLAP from OLTP workloads
  • Methods by which Oracle optimizes queries for data warehouses
  • Introduction to materialized views and aggregate tables

Planning and Scaling Oracle Warehouses

  • Considerations for hardware and system architecture
  • The benefits of partitioning and compression
  • Overview of Oracle licensing and features

Use Cases and Best Practices

  • Case studies in warehouse design
  • Recommended practices for planning Oracle DW projects
  • Initiating a pilot implementation

Conclusion and Recommended Next Steps

Requirements

  • Familiarity with relational databases
  • Foundational knowledge of SQL
  • No previous experience with Oracle data warehousing is necessary

Target Audience

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

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