Oracle Intro to Designer

Oracle Designer Tutorial

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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 subordinate


– 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


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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• You can include objects that you have already created in other tools or as a part of a different diagram


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Oracle Designer Screen

Select Dataflow Diagrammer


Dataflow Diagrammer

Select New or Open depending on your task



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Choose Container

Click to select your container


Select or Create a Global Function



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Working on a Diagram


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

Adding elements to the DFD

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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• To decompose your diagram– Select a function you want to decompose

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Decomposition

– Right-click on it and select Open 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


can resolve the global data flows by attaching them to sub-functions– Global data flow will get automatically removed from

the higher level diagram

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 flowsdata flows– select necessary data flows– The resolved data flows will appear as dashed lines



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• Functional Hierarchy Diagrammer automatically creates a functional hierarchy based on the functional decomposition specified in the Data

Viewing functional hierarchy

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 f ti


function. • 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

Y i l d bj t th t h l d• You can include objects that you have already created in other tools or as a part of a different diagram


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


• 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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• Entities and their attributes can be assigned as

Relating data stores and flows to entities

assigned as content of data stores and data flows in a DFD

• In order to assign an entity to a data


an entity to a data store or a data flow right click on the store, select content tab in the properties window

• A function can manipulate data– Create

Relating functions to entities

Create– Retrieve– Update– Delete

• In order to assign an entity usages to a function right


gclick on the function and select entity usage tab in the properties window


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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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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• 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


included in multiple 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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• 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


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


Editing the Database design (cont’d)

• 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 DatabaseDatabase

• Go to Menu/Generate/Generate Database from Server model

• You will need to provide login information for the DB once again


• Click Start

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


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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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