Obiee with unstructured data source

Hi,
How to work with Unstructured data sources using OBIEE 11g?Anybody any idea?examples would really help.
Is it also available in 10g also?
Please Help.
Regards,
Krish

Hi Krish,
It's actually possible to use OBIEE with unstructured data.
Even if you don't have real FK relations in your database and a proper model, OBIEE can create queries if you tell him where to find the joins and how they are defined.
The Idea is to create you FK in the physical layer and try to have a 3FN schema (star schema with Dimension and Fact) as much as possbile in your Business layer.
A very nice presentation is available on Mark Rittman webite:
http://www.rittmanmead.com/files/3_Complex_Modeling_with_OBIEE_Elio_Idema.pdf
Hope it will help you to start.
Regards
PS: Please don't forget to close the thread and assign points when your question is answerd

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