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Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c

You're reading from   Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 12c Build your organization's Business Intelligence system

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786464712
Length 578 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Adrian Ward Adrian Ward
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Haroun Khan Haroun Khan
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Oracle BI 12c Architecture FREE CHAPTER 2. Installing the Prerequisite Software 3. Installing on Windows Server 2012 4. Reviewing the Features of the Reporting Repository 5. Installing and Configuring Client Tools 6. Understanding the Systems Management Tools 7. Developing the BI Server Repository 8. Creating Dashboards and Analyses 9. Agents and Action Framework 10. Developing Reports Using BI Publisher 11. Usage Tracking 12. Improving Performance 13. Using the BI Admin Change Management Utilities 14. Ancillary Installation Options 15. Reporting Databases 16. Customizing the Style of Dashboards 17. Upgrading to 12c

Configuring a connection to the database


As you will see in the following chapter, one of the tasks that we set is to create a set of tables in the repository that mirror the tables in your database. This is best done when you can connect your client to the database you are modeling.

Creating a connection to your database is simple if you have the client software already installed on your workstation. For example, if you are connecting to Oracle, you will need the Oracle drivers on your machine.

We are connecting to the AdventureWorks database on SQL Server, which is on our local machine where the OBIEE client is installed; this means the software is already in place. In your installation, you may have to download the driver. Search Microsoft.com for an ODBC driver that matches your Windows version and database version, and install that first.

When the software is in place, create a new DSN using the SQL Server driver and you are ready to go.

At this point, you can move on to the next chapter...

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