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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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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

Physical layer


Firstly, we will be creating the physical layer of our RPD.

Creating an RPD and importing metadata

The procedure is as follows:

  1. Start the Oracle BI Administration Tool by navigating to Programs | Oracle 
BI | BI Administration. As shown in the following screenshot, in Oracle BI Administration Tool by clicking on File | New Repository...:

  2. This leads us to the start of the Create New Repository wizard. The first screen is an input screen for Repository Information where you need to input the following information:

    • Name: Choose something sensible in this field according to the project or subject matter. For our purposes we will name the RPD as AdventureWorks.

    • Location: Leave this field as it is, but this can be changed to anything that you require, such as a shared area or mapped drive.

    • Repository Password: You must have at least eight characters and one numeral.

    • Retype Password: Enter the same password that you entered in the Repository Password field.

    • Import Metadata: If you...

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