Dac (Obiee)

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DAC (OBIEE)

DAC stands for Data Warehouse Application Console. It is an essential component of Oracle BI application architecture. DAC serves the following purposes: 1. DAC is a metadata driven administration and deployment tool for ETL and data warehouse objects

2. Used by warehouse developers and ETL Administrator

3. Application Configuration

Manages metadata-driven task dependencies and relationships Allows creating custom ETL execution plans Allows for dry-run development and testing

4. Execution

Enables parallel loading for high performance ETL Facilitates in index management and database statistics collection Automates change capture for Siebel OLTP Assists in capturing deleted records Fine grain restartability

5. Monitoring

Enables remote admin and monitoring Provides runtime metadata validation checks Provides in-context documentation

Why do I need to use DAC from Oracle BI EE?


Data Warehouse Application Console (DAC) works together with Informatica to acomplish the ETL for pre-packaged BI applications. Here are what happen behind the scene:
DAC publish the changes from OLTP Informatica extracts the changes from the change log published by DAC as well as from

the base table

Informatica load the data to the stage tables and the target tables in the data

warehouse

DAC manage the performance by dropping indexes, truncating stage tables, rebuilding

the indexes, and analyzing the tables during the process

If you do not use DAC, you have to write your own custom change capture process and need to redesign from scratch an ETL method that allow the restart of the ETL process from point of failure at record level. The biggest saving is that DAC can survive during the upgrade , while your custom processes cannot.

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