Dimension with header and lines information

Question

Hi Experts
I am using Oracle 11g for database , Oracle Admin Tool for repository creation
Source : EBS R12
Target : OBIEE
In EBS R12 , I have gathered information about inspection [Inspection is our customized form in EBS , In Inspection we contain information about Jobs , WorkOrder , Asset etc]
Some Inspection form have header information only and Some Inspection form have header and line information as well [there is no measures]
I have confused about Header and Lines data in dimension tables ! how can I handle with it?
In All inspection form some fields are common in header information
Ryte now I have broke into two tables
1: Dimension [Header and Lines]
2: Factless Fact Table [Contains only FK]
I want how can I merge two dimensions for get common information about different inspections?
and how can I handle the Lines data in dimension table?
Please proposed the best technique
Best Regards,
ZafaR

Answer 1

Hi SqlCraze,
According to your description, you want to load a “Header” table data with FileIdentifier, Code and ID columns and a “Detail” table data with Year, Type, LegalID and Amount columns from the xml file.
Based on my research, the reason why you can only see 3 columns "FileIdentifier, Code, ID" in the XML Source is that there are only one element named includedFileHeader which contains those three columns.
So if we want to achieve your requirement, we should add another element which contains four columns "Year, Type, LegalID, Amount" in the XML file. For more information, please refer to the following steps:
Modify the XML file as below:
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<Report xmlns="http://......... ">
 <includedFileHeader>
  <FileIdentifier>677ff108</FileIdentifier>
  <Code>XYZ</Code>
  <ID>17437</ID>
 </includedFileHeader>
        <IncludedFileDetail>
 <Year>2014</Year>
 <Type>P</Type>
 <LegalID>Test - 17437</LegalID>
 <Amount>969.33</Amount>
        </includedFileDetail>
</Report>
Use the modified XML in the XML Source, we can see two Output name: includedFileHeader and IncludedFileDetail.
Connect to a SQL Server Destination with “IncludedFileHeader” as Output, another with “IncludedFileDetail” as Output.
The following screenshot is for your reference:
If there are any other questions, please feel free to ask.
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Katherine Xiong
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