Process Flow Design

Question

I'm looking for some guidance on a Process Flow Design.
Background -
I'm trying to develop a process, using OWB, to load 400+ tables into an ODS (external tables -> DB tables).
Can this be achieved in one process flow or do I need to create multiple process flows (smaller chuncks) or 400+ process flows?
Does any good documentation exist on this subject?
Thanks
Mike

Answer 1

Hi,
The .bat file looks something like this:
rem echo OFF
set ORACLE_HOME=c:\Oracle\ora10G1.0
set NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8MSWIN1252
sqlplus.exe owbrt9204/owbrt9204@db @F:\BI_FlowScripts\run_process1.sql
There is one .sql flie associated with eac .bat file:
spool c:\BI_FlowScripts\Log\run_process1.log
variable ret_stat number;
DECLARE
REPOS_SCHEMA VARCHAR2(200);
LOCATION_NAME VARCHAR2(200);
TASK_TYPE VARCHAR2(200);
TASK_NAME VARCHAR2(200);
SYSTEM_PARAMS VARCHAR2(200);
CUSTOM_PARAMS VARCHAR2(200);
OEM_FRIENDLY NUMBER;
BEGIN
REPOS_SCHEMA := 'OWBRT9204';
LOCATION_NAME := 'BI_LOC_WORKFLOWS';
TASK_TYPE := 'PROCESS';
TASK_NAME := 'PROCESS1';
SYSTEM_PARAMS := ',';
CUSTOM_PARAMS := ',';
OEM_FRIENDLY := 0;
:ret_stat := PKG_RUN_REMOTE.RUN_JOB ( REPOS_SCHEMA, LOCATION_NAME, TASK_TYPE, TASK_NAME, SYSTEM_PARAMS, CUSTOM_PARAMS, OEM_FRIENDLY );
COMMIT;
END;
print :ret_stat;
exit :ret_stat;
The function RUN_JOB in the package PKG_RUN_REMOTE is the sqlplus_exec_template rewritten as a function which returns the job status (resides in the runtime schema).
We implemented this for OWB 9.0.4, and haven't really looked at it since, so there may be an easier way to do this in the latest version that I'm not aware of.
Roald