Comments on: Putting Together a BI Suite Sample Dataset, Part 1 http://www.rittmanmead.com/2006/12/05/putting-together-a-bi-suite-sample-dataset-part-1/ Delivered Intelligence Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:01:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John Lilley http://www.rittmanmead.com/2006/12/05/putting-together-a-bi-suite-sample-dataset-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-2001 John Lilley Sun, 14 Oct 2007 18:52:03 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2006/12/05/putting-together-a-bi-suite-sample-dataset-part-1/#comment-2001 Mark, The book sounds interesting. Please ensure you cover how to create aliases onto one 'dates' table from many other tables in the schema and still only have one 'dates/time' category/dimension in the presentation layer. We have not managed to do this yet, still struggling! The tutorial skillfully avoids such a common warehouse constuct. One which Business Objects would easily handle. John Mark,
The book sounds interesting. Please ensure you cover how to create aliases onto one ‘dates’ table from many other tables in the schema and still only have one ‘dates/time’ category/dimension in the presentation layer. We have not managed to do this yet, still struggling! The tutorial skillfully avoids such a common warehouse constuct. One which Business Objects would easily handle.

John

]]> By: Mark Rittman » Announcing: Oracle Press “Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Developers Guide” http://www.rittmanmead.com/2006/12/05/putting-together-a-bi-suite-sample-dataset-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-2000 Mark Rittman » Announcing: Oracle Press “Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Developers Guide” Wed, 06 Dec 2006 21:14:30 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2006/12/05/putting-together-a-bi-suite-sample-dataset-part-1/#comment-2000 [...] Over the next twelve months I’ll be posting examples as I work them through for the book, plus a bit of insight into the process of writing a book and then getting it published. Coupled with this, and some other changes that I can’t go into now, it looks like 2007 is going to be a fairly busy year for me but hopefully by the end of the year it’ll all be worthwhile. For now though, it’s back to putting the examples together, then it’s on to the first of the Oracle Warehouse Builder chapters. [...] [...] Over the next twelve months I’ll be posting examples as I work them through for the book, plus a bit of insight into the process of writing a book and then getting it published. Coupled with this, and some other changes that I can’t go into now, it looks like 2007 is going to be a fairly busy year for me but hopefully by the end of the year it’ll all be worthwhile. For now though, it’s back to putting the examples together, then it’s on to the first of the Oracle Warehouse Builder chapters. [...]

]]> By: Gabe http://www.rittmanmead.com/2006/12/05/putting-together-a-bi-suite-sample-dataset-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1999 Gabe Wed, 06 Dec 2006 17:28:16 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2006/12/05/putting-together-a-bi-suite-sample-dataset-part-1/#comment-1999 It was about the 2 distinct 0:M relationships disguised as one M:M relationship and few other things … which are all irrelevant if all you want is a dataset. My mention of “GUI tools” was relative to “data modeling” and not “command line tools”. Good luck with the book. It was about the 2 distinct 0:M relationships disguised as one M:M relationship and few other things … which are all irrelevant if all you want is a dataset.

My mention of “GUI tools” was relative to “data modeling” and not “command line tools”.

Good luck with the book.

]]> By: mark http://www.rittmanmead.com/2006/12/05/putting-together-a-bi-suite-sample-dataset-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1998 mark Wed, 06 Dec 2006 16:08:17 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2006/12/05/putting-together-a-bi-suite-sample-dataset-part-1/#comment-1998 Hi Gabe, Yes, it's going to be about the Oracle BI Suite, so neccessarily about GUI tools rather than using the command line. In terms of the HR schema, not sure what you mean ... if it's the many-to-many that the diagram seems to suggest, that's just the way the tool shows two one-to-many relationships between the tables (employees belong to a department, departments have managers who are employees). At the end of the day though, it's just some sample source data, it's just going to be used as a data source for some ETL processes. regards Mark Hi Gabe,

Yes, it’s going to be about the Oracle BI Suite, so neccessarily about GUI tools rather than using the command line. In terms of the HR schema, not sure what you mean … if it’s the many-to-many that the diagram seems to suggest, that’s just the way the tool shows two one-to-many relationships between the tables (employees belong to a department, departments have managers who are employees). At the end of the day though, it’s just some sample source data, it’s just going to be used as a data source for some ETL processes.

regards

Mark

]]> By: Gabe http://www.rittmanmead.com/2006/12/05/putting-together-a-bi-suite-sample-dataset-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1997 Gabe Wed, 06 Dec 2006 14:44:18 +0000 http://www.rittmanmead.com/wp2/2006/12/05/putting-together-a-bi-suite-sample-dataset-part-1/#comment-1997 It seems the book will be mostly about GUI tools ... nonethless, you may want to think over that HR data model. It seems the book will be mostly about GUI tools … nonethless, you may want to think over that HR data model.

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