Oracle intro to designer abridged

Oracle Designer Tutorial
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Oracle 10G Designer
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Start Oracle Designer
Starting Oracle Designer 2

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Log into Oracle (Connect)
• Enter your
username and
password
• Type
‘oracle10g’ in
the Connect
String box
Tools
• Data Flow Diagrammer
• Entity Relationship Diagrammer
P Di• Process 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.
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
– Has attributes, relationships and primary keys as
subordinate 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
• Open the Entity Relationship Diagramer
• Click New Diagram, select a container the same way as
for DFD
Creating a Entity Relationship Diagram
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
Modify information about entities, add
attributes

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Modify information about relationships,
including Min and Max cardinalities
• You can change the
font and color of your
elements using the
Formatting diagrams
elements using the
following icons.
• You can drag elements
on the diagram in order
to better reposition
them
• You can add summary
You can add summary
information to the
diagram by selecting
File/Summary
Information

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• Open the Matrix Diagrammer
• Click New Diagram, select a container the same way as
for the other diagrams
Creating a Matrix
for the other diagrams
• Select element that you would like to appear as rows and
as columns
• For a Crud Matrix, select functions as rows, and entities
as rows
• Select information to appear as column and row labels
Creating a CRUD Matrix
• 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
• Open the Repository report tool
• Select the appropriate report type and double click on the
report name
Viewing and printing reports
report name

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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
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 (cont’d)
• Select all tables and click
Diagram
• Now you can view and edit
the database design
Generating tables
• Once you are satisfied with your DB design you can use
the Design Editor tool to generate table for you r oracle
DatabaseDatabase
• 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
ill
will open.
• Make sure you save all
of them!!!
• You can now click
Execute DDL
Generating tables (cont’d)
• A progress report will tell you if tables were created successfully
• You can now check if the
tables have been created bytables have been created by
logging into the SQL*Plus,
typing
– DESCRIBE [TableName];

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