Presenter Readme for 1-day Oracle Data Integration Workshop

The 1-day Data Integration workshop for customers has 8 hours of program with 2 labs for the products Data Integrator and GoldenGate, as well as a demo of the two products working together. A sample agenda is available at http://www.oracle.com/dm/10q3field/43949_ev_di_bloomington_feb17.html:
Agenda
8:30 a.m. 9:15 a.m. 9:30 a.m. 10:30 a.m. 10:45 a.m. 12:15 p.m. 1:15 p.m. 3:15 p.m. 3:15 p.m. 4:30 p.m. Registration, Breakfast Introduction & Set-Up Introduction to Oracle Data Integration: Innovating with Real-time Break Lab 1 - Oracle Data Integrator Enterprise Edition: Advantages of E-LT Working Lunch + Lab 1 (cont.) Lab 2 Oracle GoldenGate: Introduction to Real-time Data Integration and Continuous Availability Break Demonstrating ODI-EE + Oracle GoldenGate together for Real-time BI/DW Wrap-Up, Q&A

Details about VM and Setup

All labs are run from a VMWare image available from Retriever at http://retriever.us.oracle.com/apex/f? p=121:22:4923449154619503::NO:RP:P22_CONTAINER_ID:40606. This document is also hosted there. It is strongly recommended to host the workshop centrally rather than running it on local or customers machines. The Oracle Enterprise Technology Center (ETC) provides a hosted environment to run workshop labs. Submit a hardware request for hosting the workshop early, at least 7 days before the event. Customers have the following machine requirements for connecting to a hosted lab image:
Laptop computer with wireless network card (Windows XP with SP3 or Windows Vista - 32 bit only.) User must have full administration privileges to the Laptop computer Internet Explorer (6.0 or above) with Active X enabled Download and install the Free Nomachine NX Client Software (http://www.nomachine.com/download-client-windows.php) on the Laptop.

The login to the VM is demo with password Oracle1. Workbook PDFs for the labs are available on the retriever link above, they are also stored on the VM. Please note that the ODI Advanced Hands-on Lab is present on the VM and as a workbook, but it is not part of the 1-day workshop.

ODI Introductory Hands-on Lab

This lab has been originally used for Oracle OpenWorld 2009. It shows the basics of creating an EL-T model and points out advantages over conventional ELT. The lab has mandatory parts 1-3 and optional parts 4-5. It takes students about 1 hour to go through the exercises. Presenters can either demonstrate the full lab to the audience and have them repeat the steps, or let students go through the steps by themselves after a brief introduction. As pointed out in the instructions, the script Reset_ODI .bat should be run if prior exercises have been done on the VM. If the VM has not been used for exercises since the download from retriever, this is not necessary. When running this script, make sure that all connections to the database are closed. The instructor should go through the lab at least once prior to the event to get familiar with it. Please pay close attention to the instructions, as typos and skipped steps will cause unnecessary delays and diagnostic steps.

GoldenGate Hands-on Lab

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ODI- GoldenGate Interoperability Demo

This demo shows real-time data integration using both GoldenGate and ODI using the new ODI Journalizing Knowledge Module (JKM) for GoldenGate. This was originally created as a hands-on lab, but is used for this workshop as an instructor-led demo. You can use the lab workbook as your demo script. Please note that Part 2 of the lab can be done by running the script copy_gg_files.bat from the Windows desktop, this will improve the flow of the demo. You should practice this demo in advance. Any typos or mistakes are difficult to diagnose or correct during the demo. Common questions from the audience: What is the advantage of using both GG and ODI here, why not use one or the other? GG is the best-of-breed CDC mechanism for Oracle data integration. Its main advantages are: - Non-intrusiveness: GG does not add any tables, triggers, etc into the source database. - Performance/Scalability: GG can scale to transfer large amounts of change log - Robustness: GG maintains full transactional integrity for all failures ODI is Oracles best-of-breed solution for applying complex transformations in a

data integration scenario. It complements GG by applying data warehousing and other transformations to the records replicated by GG. The JKM generates GG configuration files in a temp directory, the user has to do 5 steps to copy files and run GG obey scripts. Why cant ODI copy the generated files into the right location and execute the scripts? The actual deployment environment and file transfer mechanisms can vary, for example source and staging machines might be remote machines that require FTP/SFTP/Code checkin, or even email to a colleague to transfer the files. This cannot be universally automated. Why do you use a staging area, couldnt we just copy files straight from source to the target? In most scenarios, you need to access staging tables to perform joins and other operations for the final integration step. It is not advisable to go back to the original operational source to get this data again. Also, the staging area can be used to perform real-time reporting on the data without adding stress on the original source. Why did GoldenGate take so long to perform its first replication? During the first replication of a new group, new constructs are created and initialized by GoldenGate, this can cause a few seconds delay. In general these replications take 1-2 seconds, as GG is tuned by default to scalability and wait briefly for a batch of records rather than immediately send a change on to the target.