[OBIA] Oracle BI Application Data Warehouse Administration Console

        Oracle BI Application Data Warehouse Administration Console

In Oracle BI Application Data Waehouse Administration Console, a task is a unit of work that load data to one or more tables. A task can extract the data from the source and populate the staging tables or load the data from the staging tables to the target warehouse tables.

Typically a task is mapped to an Informatica workflow. DAC does not include the actual mapping logic. DAC stores the essential metadata which satisfies the needs to generate the ETL execution plan. A task is the minimum unit of work the DAC engine can include in the execution plan.

A task in DAC consists of the following information:

• Source Tables
• Target Tables
• Phase
• Execution Type
• Truncate Option
• Command for Increment Load : The name of the Informatica workflow
• Command for Full Load: The name of the Informatica workflow

Oracle BI Applications provides the pre-defined task seed data for the predefined Informatica mappings for different OLTP adapters (Oracle E-Business Suite, PeopleSoft, Siebel, and SAP)The DAC client allows you to define new tasks and configure the execution plan for your custom deployment. When the task is mapped to Informatica workflow, DAC provides the capability to synchronize the metadata between DAC repository and Informatica repository. If the workflow name is found in Informatica repository, the source tables and target tables of the Informatica workflow will be fetched and loaded into DAC respository for the DAC task.

The source and target table information is essential for DAC to determine the tasks required for populating a target star schema and to determine the sequence of tasks in execution plan.

 Always use the “Synchronize Tasks” option when you define a task in DAC.

You can also execute a SQL  script to load the data instead of using Informatica Workflow.  Informtica gave Oracle BI applications development the advantage of developing the platform independent ETL programs, which can extract and load the data from and into different database platform.  However, DAC does support the ETL execution type, other then Informatica workflow, such as SQL script.  If you want to improve your data warehouse ETL performance or you find that it is easier to develop SQL script to perform your custom ETL jobs, you can create SQL scripts and still register the scripts with DAC in its repository so it can be included in the execution plan and executed automatically by the DAC execution engine.

 Create SQL script to improve your warehouse ETL performance in your custom warehouse deployment