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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Overview of Data Warehousing

  • Definition and purpose of a data warehouse
  • Advantages of warehousing for analytics and reporting
  • Support for warehousing in Oracle Database 19c

Architecture of Oracle Data Warehouses

  • Core components: source data, ETL, staging, and presentation layers
  • Comparison of star and snowflake schemas
  • Oracle tools for managing data warehouse environments

Data Modeling Principles

  • Structure of fact and dimension tables
  • Concepts of surrogate keys and granularity
  • Fundamentals of slowly changing dimensions (SCD)

Introduction to ETL Workflows

  • Overview of ETL processes and Oracle-supported tools
  • Distinction between batch and real-time loading
  • Common challenges in data integration and quality assurance

Querying and Reporting Principles

  • Differences between OLAP and OLTP workloads
  • Methods Oracle uses to optimize queries for data warehouses
  • Introduction to materialized views and aggregate structures

Planning and Scaling Oracle Warehouses

  • Considerations for hardware and architecture
  • Benefits of partitioning and compression
  • Overview of Oracle licensing and features

Practical Applications and Best Practices

  • Case studies on warehouse design
  • Best practices for planning Oracle data warehouse projects
  • Steps for initiating a pilot implementation

Recap and Future 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 work with Oracle data warehousing
  • Business intelligence teams

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