Oracle Corporation’ (ORCL) acquisition of Golden Gate Software on July of 2009 was a big step for Oracle in its quest to build a open and heterogeneous product line that will be more appealing to enterprise customers with complex OLTP and data warehouse environments. You can find a detailed presentation of the considerations that were […]
On October of 2006 Oracle acquired Sunopsisa sofware company whose flagship product was one of the up-and-coming players in the datata warehousing arena. Sunopsis for easy integration in environments with multiple database systems and differentiated itself by adopting an Extract-Load-Transform architecture that decreased the learning curve for database developers that were immediately able to create […]
This procedure is required when installing Oracle products such at the Oracle Database or Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition on a host machine that uses DHCP. Follow the steps to configure a loopback adapterand then: Open the host file under c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc using notepad Identify your computer’s host name by right clicking on My Computer, selecting […]
This is a list of the parameters and configuration settings you should first check when installing the oracle database into a personal/sandbox environments, I made a note of them to allow me to verify them quickly without going through all the documentation for every install. This assumes you will not use ASM on your new […]
Database Version: gRelease 2 (11.2)for Microsoft Windows (32-Bit) Hardware Requirements Requirement Minimum Value Physical memory (RAM) GB minimum Virtual memory Double the amount of RAM Disk space Total: 5.35 GB SeeTable 2for details. Processor Type Intel (x86), AMD64, and Intel EM64T Video adapter 56 colors Screen Resolution 024 X 768 minimum Space Requirements Installation Type […]
I have been working with a lot of materialized views in our PeopleSoft Campus Solutions Warehouse lately and let me tell you, they can be a pain some times. Before I go into technical details here are some best practices that we have developed in our environment for data that is loaded once nightly.
“An Exception has occurred. The database connection detail for service INFA_REPO_SVC are invalid. Please check log for details”
The Informatica repository is designed to reside in a database system, for my local test environment I will be hosting it in an Oracle 11g database. Here are two design principles that need to be taken into consideration when setting up the database that will host your repository: Creating a dedicated tablespace for your repository […]
Clean database and control files after dropping database
The nicest thing about PeopleSoft after the whole PIA Metadata-driven interface and its impact on data quality is how meticulous PeopleSoft engineers are about documentation and sticking to naming standards, here’s a simplified diagram of the wharehouse architecture and the naming standard for objects in each section of the schema:
Abnormal termination of stage (cast those CLOBs!)