Adding information about a warehouse source

Use the Warehouse Source notebook to add information about the new warehouse source that you are defining to the Data Warehouse Center.

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To add information about a warehouse source:

  1. Open the Warehouse Source notebook.

  2. In the Name field, type a business name for the warehouse source.

    You will use this name to refer to your warehouse source throughout the Data Warehouse Center.

  3. Optional: In the Administrator field, type the name of a person to contact about the warehouse source.

  4. Optional: In the Description field, type a short description of the data.

  5. Optional: In the Notes field, type any additional information about the warehouse source.

  6. Select a data source from the Warehouse source type field. Depending on the type of source you select, subsequent pages of the notebook may not be selectable.

  7. Go to the Agent Sites page if you are defining a warehouse source, or click OK to save your changes and close the Warehouse Sources notebook.

Related information

Specifying database information for a warehouse source

Importing source tables and views into a warehouse source

Authorizing warehouse groups to access a warehouse source

Specifying an agent site to access a warehouse source

Specifying how often to retry data extracts

Importing files into a warehouse source

Warehouse Source notebook overview