Data Warehouse security using Oracle Profiles

Has anyone used Oracle Profiles to secure their data warehouse. I have the requirement for conditional column and row viewing based on the login user. We could do this with Business Objects Enterprise security, however there are other applications that have access to the DW tables.
I was wondering if this has been successful out in the field and the overhead it could cause on the DB.
Thanks for any feedback, -rs-

You need to be creating your "business groups" as a group in the RPD, init blocks to retrieve the user business group at login. Filters in the Logical table sources to restrict data to relevant business groups only.
Presentation 'Web Cat' groups with the same name as the RPD groups so a user inherits membership automatically.
I'd suggest sourcing a vanilla OBIA rpd to see how it is implemented out of the box.

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"Data Warehouse can be only deployed in relation database."


Above statement is true or false.


If we see it simply without any complication or may be go back 7-8 years it's answer may be false as I find out after doing research on it


"A data warehouse can be normalized or denormalized. It can be a relational database, multidimensional database, flat file, hierarchical database, object database, etc. Data warehouse data often gets changed. And data warehouses often focus on a specific activity or entity." Larry Greenfield


The data warehouse is normally (but does not have to be) a relational database. It must be organized to hold information in a structure that best supports not only query and reporting, but also advanced analysis techniques, like data mining. Most data warehouses hold information for at least 1 year and sometimes can reach half century, depending on the business/operations data retention requirement. As a result these databases can become very large.en.wikipedia.org


But I think when we look into the complication of designing and functionality which we are expecting from a data warehouse today and plus the concept which use when designing the data warehouse structure like star scheme, snow flake etc., I think it cannot be done in any other type of database which don't follow the relation database concept. We may call it multidimensional database or ORDBMS and we may talk about cubes, measures, dimension and so on but from the base it has to follows the relation database.


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Thanks Justin!
 
I agree with you the concept exist before the relational database was invented. Last time I know they call it EIS then they name it MIS and now data warehouse. But what I am taking about is modern data warehouse technique, If you really think that any other type of database can support it without following relational database concept. Let me know which one?
 
I am still searching for my answers and have discuss with lot of people, but when I asked them have they seen any implementation of data warehouse without using relational database, the answer that I get is always negative. 
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