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Log into Oracle (Connect)

Enter your username and password Type oracle10g in the Connect String box

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Tools
Data Flow Diagrammer Entity Relationship Diagrammer Process Di P Diagrammer Functional Hierarchy Diagrammer Matrix Designer Database Design Transformer Application Design Transformer Design Editor Repository Object Navigator Repository Reports
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Oracle Designer Screen

To launch a specific click once on a respective icon. Double clicking will cause the application to shut up.

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Types of objects
Business unit
used in process modeling

Business function
Used in process modeling, data flow modeling and functional hierarchy modeling Will have data flows as subordinate objects

Data store
Used in data flow modeling Will have data flows as subordinate objects

Entity
Has attributes relationships and primary keys as subordinate attributes, objects

Diagram contains all the diagrams and matrices External Entities (sources and sinks) Table definitions, etc
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You can view your objects through the Repository object navigator

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Using Data Flow Diagrammer

Deals with functions, data stores, external entities and data flows Each diagram decomposes a specific global function
An organization in general A specific system A function within the system

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Oracle Designer Screen

Select Dataflow Diagrammer

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Dataflow Diagrammer

Select New or Open depending on your task

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Choose Container

Click to select your container

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Select or Create a Global Function

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Working on a Diagram

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Adding elements to the DFD

Using respective icons at the top of the screen, add a new function inside the created frame function

Name your function Add a data store Add data flows between external entities, data stores and functions
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You can modify information about a function, data store or data flow by double-clicking on it

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Decomposition
To decompose your diagram
Select a function you want to decompose Ri h li k on i and select O Right-click it d l Open D Down A new diagram will open with the selected function as a frame function, elements that interact with this function and global data flows

During the decomposition you can specify you can resolve the global data flows by attaching them to sub-functions
Global data flow will get automatically removed from the higher level diagram
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Resolving data flows

You will need to modify the higher level diagram to include resolved data flows
right click on the higher level diagram, select Include/resolved data flows select necessary data flows The resolved data flows will appear as dashed lines

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Viewing functional hierarchy

Functional Hierarchy Diagrammer automatically creates a functional hierarchy based on the functional decomposition specified in the Data Flow Diagram Open the Functional Hierarchy Diagrammer, select a container the same way as for DFD Create a new diagram, select a higher level function. f ti All lower level functions will show as its subordinates
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Creating a business process map

Deals with functions, business units and flows, including data flows and temporal flows. Each diagram decomposes a specific global function
An organization in general A specific system/process A function within the system/process

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Creating business process map

Open Process Modeler Add organizational units (swim lanes) Add functions and assign them to organizational units Add data and temporal flows. Add triggers

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Process Model Example

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Creating a Entity Relationship Diagram

Open the Entity Relationship Diagramer Click New Diagram, select a container the same way as for DFD Add entities and relationships using the icons at the top of the screen

Name your elements using the dialog boxes that pop up To modify information about each of the elements, double click on the element and use the dialog window
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Your ERD should look something like this

In order to specify subtype-supertype relationship, you place the subtype inside of the supertype
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Modify information about entities, add attributes

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Modify information about relationships, including Min and Max cardinalities

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Formatting diagrams
You can change the font and color of your elements using the following icons. You can drag elements on the diagram in order to better reposition them You can add summary information to the diagram by selecting File/Summary Information
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Relating data stores and flows to entities

Entities and their attributes can be assigned as content of data stores and data flows in a DFD In order to assign an entity to a data store or a data flow right click on the store, select content tab in the properties window

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Relating functions to entities

A function can manipulate data
Create Retrieve Update Delete

In order to assign an entity usages to a function right g click on the function and select entity usage tab in the properties window
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Creating a Matrix
Open the Matrix Diagrammer Click New Diagram, select a container the same way as for the other diagrams Select element that you would like to appear as rows and as columns

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Creating a CRUD Matrix

For a Crud Matrix, select functions as rows, and entities as rows Select information to appear as column and row labels and on the intersection or columns and rows

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Your final CRUD Matrix will look like this

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Viewing and printing reports

Open the Repository report tool Select the appropriate report type and double click on the report name

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Oracle Tutorial Problem

The order management system allows to load and store product information from the product database (external entity). For each product, the following information is stored: Product ID, short description, long description, price (for simplicity reasons, we assume constant availability of all the products). The order management system also allows customers to register with the system. On registration, the following customer information is stored: login (e-mail), first name, last name, address, city, state, zip, day phone, and a password. A registered customer can log into the system by submitting a login and a password. During the login, the system will query the customer file. After logging in a customer can view product information and place an order. Order information includes order number, date, shipment info, products included and quantities for each product, and the total order amount. An order may include multiple products, and a product can be included in multiple orders orders. Order information is stored in an order database. Order information is provided to the order fulfillment system. Based on this description, we will build an ER diagram, a data flow diagram, a functional hierarchy diagram and a crud matrix

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Next Class
Oracle DB design transformer Oracle Design Editor

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Now we will see how it can work for a simple example

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Database Design Transformer

Allows to transform an ERD into a database (server model) Produces Server model and Table definitions In order to run transformer
Open Database Design Transformer Select the container

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Transforming the Database design

On the database design transformer dialog box view and modify settings and then click Run

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Editing the Database design

Open the database design editor Select Server model Select container and click Create/Edit DB objects Select Tables and Columns

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Editing the Database design (contd)

Select all tables and click Diagram Now you can view and edit the database design

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Generating tables
Once you are satisfied with your DB design you can use the Design Editor tool to generate table for you r oracle Database Go to Menu/Generate/Generate Database from Server model You will need to provide login information for the DB once again Click Start

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Generating tables
Somewhere along the way a message will pop up

Click View DDL (Data Definition Language) A number of text files will open. ill Make sure you save all of them!!! You can now click Execute DDL
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Generating tables (contd)

A progress report will tell you if tables were created successfully You can now check if the tables have been created by logging into the SQL*Plus, typing
DESCRIBE [TableName];

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