OBIEE 11g - Bootcamp (AG) PDF
OBIEE 11g - Bootcamp (AG) PDF
OBIEE 11g - Bootcamp (AG) PDF
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Edition 1.0
August 2011
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d. Wait for at least 10 minutes to have all the services up and running, once
all the services are up you will see the Oracle BI User Interface login
screen.
e. Verify system by entering credentials provided below
Cache
2. Explore Enterprise Manager (Fusion Middle ware Control) and Locate Oracle BI
services in the application and control the application by starting and stopping
services, which Repository and Web Catalog is currently loaded on the server.
b. Click on the New link on the top right corner of the dashboard
c. Select New Analysis to create a new analysis and to see the list of available
subject areas
d. In the subject area section, select Sample Sales Lite subject area
e. What are the objects available in the left selection pane
f. Expand Product folder, what are the available attributes for Products?
g. Explore other folders and familiarize yourself with the available information in
the subject area
c. Apply a filter on the Per Name Year column (click on Year column to add it in
the report and then click on filters tab in the selected column pane, you can
remove this column from report later on)
d. Filter request for year 2008,2009
e. Save your filter as a shared filter in shared folders, Name it as 11g Bootcamp
Filter_Initials
f. Rerun the request
c. If not the desired one, then browse the repository from saved location and
Click on Apply button in the right most corner
d. Click on Activate changes, and then Restart services (shown as alert on the
deployment page)
e. Restart all BI Services from the Overview tab of Enterprise Manager
b. How many windows appear in the Oracle BI Admin tool and what does each
of them represent
h. Double click on Brand column and explore the properties of Brand column
SAMP_OFFICES_D
SAMP_PRODUCTS_D
SAMP_REVENUE_A
SAMP-REVENUE_F
SAMP_TARGET_F
SAMP_TIME_DAY_D
SAMP_TIME_MTH_D
e. Expand the objects and identify primary and foreign keys within the tables
f. Double-click on the connection pool object automatically created during the
schema import
Similarly you can join all fact tables with dimension tables based
on foreign and primary key relationship.
j.
4. Create Catalog
a. Go to Enterprise Manager > Business Intelligence > Coreapplication >
Deployment
b. Click on Lock and Edit Configuration, Provide the Catalog name in the catalog
path as 11g_Bootcamp_Initials (put the name of catalog at the end) and click
Apply
c. Click Activate Changes button
c. Expand the Product logical table sources in the business model layer
d. Drag and drop Type and Brand columns OVER the Product logical table
source (Automatically creates the joins in the logical table source)
e. Verify column mapping that the Type and Brand columns are mapped to
different source tables
f. Drag these columns over to the presentation tables and make them available
for query
g. Load the repository on the server, and restart the BI component services
h. Create a simple request including Brand or Type and Product information
along with Revenue measures
i. Look at the query log and make sure that the correct tables were accessed
3. Identify unique columns at each level and number of unique values available at that
level
Product Detail (Child level to Product Type level, will be the detail
level of hierarchy)
1. Product number (This attribute will be used as detailed level
key)
c. If you see a hyperlink on the Product Type column, this indicates that the
hierarchies are available at this column.
e. Now you can drill down on the column to see the details of the Product Type
Revenues
b. Display results
h. Then Create a New variable called TopOffice, which will use the current
year variable.
i. Go to the Initialization block button and select create New
j.
4. Create Application Roles and Policies in the Enterprise Manager FMW Control
a. Go to Oracle Enterprise Manager FMW Control > Business intelligence
instance> coreapplication > Security > Manage Application roles, Application
policies
e. Do you see any change in the subject areas available for you to work on?
3. Enable Caching
a. By default the Cache is Enabled from Enterprise Manager, go to
manager>Business Intelligence>Capacity Management>Performance
b. Observe the Check box to enable Cache
5. Verify Results
a. Login to the application again
b. Create a Simple Analysis, Run the analysis from the saved location, Wait for
some time
c. Rerun the BC Request report again and view the querylog file, go to
Administration Tab of OBIEE Presentation application and then Manage
Sessions> then check the query for recently executed analysis.
d. Observer the difference between the previous query log and current query log
b. View the query log and see which tables are being accessed for the data
a. Login to Oracle BI Presentation, navigate to Home page and Look for Oracle
BI for MS Office Add-In download link.
e. Oracle BI Server
f. NQQuery.log
g. NQSConfig.ini
h. RPD
i. DBFeatures.ini
j.
Cache
3. Explore Enterprise Manager Fusion Middle ware Control and Locate Oracle BI
services in the application and control the application by starting and stopping
services, which Repository and Web Catalog is currently loaded on the server.
4. Open and explore NQServer.log file. What are the messages recorded in the log
file?
a. Check/Uncheck desired values from the Year prompt and select Company
name from the drop down and click Apply
b. What changes do you observe on the Dashboard
h. Move cursor over to the Revenue Bar for Touch Screen T5 (Product), see
what happens?
i. Click on the bar to display the details of Touch Screen T5 Product Revenue
j.
Which one is the highest Revenue generator Office in the Product as Touch
Screen T5?
g. Drag Chart view side by side to the table view in the compound layout
d. Expand Revenue Base Measures Facts table and identify how many different
physical table sources are mapped to Revenue Base Measures logical table
Verify that the Repository is loaded on the server - Go to Enterprise Manager >
Business Intelligence> coreapplication > Deployment > Repository ( Please refer
to Snapshot -1)
Snapshot -1
c. Click on Activate changes Click on Lock and edit button to make the
screen editable, then Activate changes button will appear, click activate
changes to apply the changes.
4. Set the Object Checkout - Set the user preference to check out the objects
automatically
d. Double click Product table and explore the properties of the Product table
e. Double click on Brand column and explore the properties of Brand column
4. Create Catalog
3. What is the difference between the two columns created in the previous steps
3. What is the difference between the two columns created in the previous steps
g. Load the repository on the server, and restart the BI component services
3. Identify unique columns at each level and number of unique values available at that
level
e. Drag this column into the presentation layer and test is using answers
9. Drag all the columns in the presentation layer Please refer slide 19
10. Load the Metadata content to Presentation server Please refer Module 8 on how to
load the Repository and start the services
11. Verify results using a simple answers request Please refer slide 20
6. Create a level based measure called Total Product Revenue Please refer slide 17
Write an SQL to query the Office with maximum Revenue in the current year
Create the Dynamic Repository Variable TopOffice and create a new Initialization
block Top Office as shown below:
SQL for getting the Office with Maximum Revenue for the current year:
select A.OFFICE_DSC
FROM
(SELECT
OFFICE_DSC,
SUM(REVENUE) AS REVENUE
FROM
samp_offices_d,
samp_revenue_f
WHERE
SAMP_OFFICES_D.office_key = SAMP_REVENUE_F.office_key and
to_number(to_char(bill_day_dt, 'yyyy')) = VALUEOF(CURRENT_YEAR)
GROUP BY office_dsc ORDER BY REVENUE DESC) A
WHERE ROWNUM = 1
3. Create Application Roles and Policies in the Enterprise Manager FMW Control
a. Go to Oracle Enterprise Manager FMW Control > Business intelligence
instance> coreapplication > Security > Manage Application roles, Application
policies
b. Create New Application roles, specify role information
c. Name the first application role as BCSampleRole1
d. Select members for this application role, include BCSampleGroup1 to this
role
a. Go the presentation layer of the repository and duplicate the existing Sample
Sales Lite catalog
b. Rename the second catalog as Sample Sales Lite Exec
c. Assign permissions for Sample Sales Lite catalog and include
BCSampleRole1 role for this catalog
d. Assign permission for Sample Sales Lite Exec catalog and include
BCSampleRole2 role for this catalog
2. Create a new user group in the Administration Console Please refer slides 21 22
3. Create Application Roles and Policies in the Enterprise Manager FMW Control
Please refer slides 23 27
4. Create new Subject Area in the repository and assign permissions Please refer
slide 29
5. Add Permissions and Privileges to the web catalog objects Please refer slides 30
31
2. Enable Caching
a. By default the Cache is Enabled from Enterprise Manager, go to
manager>Business Intelligence>Capacity Management>Performance
4. Verify Results
a. Login to the application again
b. Run the BC Request from the shared folder again
c. Wait for some time
d. Rerun the BC Request report again and view the query log file
e. What is the difference between the previous query log and current query log