Preface

Oracle Warehouse Builder Concepts provides an architectural and conceptual overview for features and functionality of Oracle Warehouse Builder. This document lays a conceptual foundation for much of the practical information contained in other manuals.

This preface contains these topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

Oracle Warehouse Builder Concepts, this guide, is primarily intended for database administrators and application developers who are new to Oracle Warehouse Builder, and who develop and maintain data integration systems. Readers of this document typically perform one or more of the following tasks:

• Plan for a data integration environment

• Configure data integration systems

• Administer a data integration environment

• Perform data integration tasks

• Deploy data integration systems

To use this document, you should be familiar with relational database concepts, distributed database administration, and the operating system under which you already run, or plan to run, an Oracle Warehouse Builder environment.

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible to all users, including users that are disabled. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/.

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

Deaf/Hard of Hearing Access to Oracle Support Services

To reach Oracle Support Services, use a telecommunications relay service (TRS) to call Oracle Support at 1.800.223.1711. An Oracle Support Services engineer will handle technical issues and provide customer support according to the Oracle service request process. Information about TRS is available at http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/trs.html, and a list of phone numbers is available at http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/trsphonebk.html.

Related Documents

For more information about Oracle Warehouse Builder, see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle Warehouse Builder Release Notes

• Oracle Warehouse Builder Installation and Administration Guide for Windows and Linux

• Oracle Warehouse Builder Data Modeling, ETL, and Data Quality Guide

• Oracle Warehouse Builder Sources and Targets Guide

• Oracle Warehouse Builder API and Scripting Reference

For information about data warehousing, see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle Database 2 Day + Data Warehousing Guide

• Oracle Database Data Warehousing Guide

For information about licensing options, see:

• Oracle Database Licensing Information

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: