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Course Outline

Foundational Data Warehousing

  • Defining the data warehouse concept.
  • The value of warehousing in analytics and reporting.
  • Warehousing capabilities provided by Oracle Database 19c.

Architecture of Oracle Data Warehouses

  • Essential components: source data, ETL, staging areas, and presentation layers.
  • Comparison of star and snowflake schema designs.
  • Oracle utilities for managing data warehouse environments.

Data Modeling Principles

  • The role of fact and dimension tables.
  • Managing surrogate keys and data granularity.
  • Understanding the basics of slowly changing dimensions (SCD).

Introduction to ETL Workflows

  • Overview of ETL processes and supported Oracle tools.
  • Distinctions between batch loading and real-time ingestion.
  • Addressing challenges in data integration and quality assurance.

Querying and Reporting Fundamentals

  • Differentiating OLAP and OLTP workloads.
  • Oracle’s approach to optimizing data warehouse queries.
  • Introduction to materialized views and data aggregation.

Strategy and Scalability for Oracle Warehouses

  • Considerations for hardware and system architecture.
  • Advantages of data partitioning and compression.
  • Overview of Oracle licensing and available features.

Practical Applications and Best Practices

  • Analysis of warehouse design case studies.
  • Recommended practices for planning Oracle data warehouse projects.
  • Initiating a pilot implementation phase.

Conclusion and Future Directions

Requirements

  • Familiarity with relational database systems.
  • Foundational knowledge of SQL.
  • No prior exposure to Oracle data warehousing is necessary.

Target Audience

  • Data analysts.
  • IT professionals preparing to engage with Oracle data warehouse technologies.
  • Business intelligence teams.
 14 Hours

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