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Using Administration Tool Utilities

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Objectives

After completing this lesson, you should be able to: Describe the various wizards and utilities in the Oracle BI

Administration Tool

Use the Administration Tool wizards and utilities to

manage, maintain, and enhance repositories

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Wizards and Utilities

This lesson describes the following utilities and wizards: Session Manager

Query Repository

Replace Columns and Tables

Repository Documentation

Generate Metadata Dictionary

Oracle BI Event Tables

Update Physical Layer

Remove Unused Physical Objects

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Accessing Wizards and Utilities

Select Manage > Sessions to access the SessionsManager.

Select Tools > Query Repository to access the Query

Repository utility.

Select Tools > Utilities to access remaining utilities.

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Managing Sessions

Use the Session Manager to monitor session activity in onlinemode.

Sessions

Requests

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Querying Repository Metadata

Use the Query Repository tool to query for objects in therepository.

Object type

Filter

Results

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Replacing Columns or Tables

Use the Replace Column or Table utility to automate theprocess of replacing physical columns and tables in logical

table sources.

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Documenting a Repository

Use the Repository Documentation utility to documentmappings from presentation columns to the corresponding

logical and physical columns.

Save in comma-separated, tab-delimited, or XML formats.

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Generating a Metadata Dictionary

Use the Generate Metadata Dictionary utility to create a set ofstatic XML documents that describe each metadata object,

including its properties and its relationships with other metadata

objects.

Metadata object

Location

Description

Relationship with other objects

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Creating an Event Table

Use the Oracle BI Event Tables utility to identify a table as anOracle BI event polling table.

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Updating the Physical Layer

Use the Update Physical Layer Wizard to update databaseobjects in the Physical layer of a repository based on their

current definitions in the back-end database.

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Removing Unused Physical Objects

Use the Remove Unused Physical Objects utility to removeobjects that are no longer needed in a repository.

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Summary

In this lesson, you should have learned how to: Describe the various wizards and utilities contained in the

Oracle BI Administration Tool

Use the Administration Tool wizards and utilities to

manage, maintain, and enhance repositories