Oracle Designer Tutorial

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Oracle 10G Designer
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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
P
Process
Di
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
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

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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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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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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
ill open.
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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