OWB 10g
Now Available For Windows
Nicholas Goodman contacted me with
the good news that Oracle Warehouse
Builder 10g has
now been released for Windows.
Although this first
release of OWB 10g is mainly concerned
with Oracle Database 10g compatibility
as a target database, the
accompanying FAQ mentions the
following new features:
-
Simplified
installation - there are no longer
Design-Time and Server-Side
installation options.
-
Warehouse Builder now
provides a script that configures the
Warehouse Builder Runtime Service for
remote execution of Warehouse
Builder's mappings on Oracle
Enterprise Manager nodes.
-
Warehouse Builder 10g
supports the deployment of Process
Flows into Computer Associates
Unicenter AutoSys Job Management.
More details on these
changes are in the
Release Notes.
The good news therefore
is that we can now use Oracle 10g as a
deployment target for OWB. However, the
OWB 10g release we're probably all
waiting for is the
'Paris' release, due later in 2004,
which looks likely to rework the way
dimensional data models are put
together, supporting more complex star
schemas together with more seamless
support for CWM metadata and
multidimensional OLAP.
