Business Intelligence Tutorial

Defining the warehouse group

In this exercise, you will define a warehouse group that will authorize the Tutorial User that you just created to perform tasks.

To define the warehouse group:

  1. From the main Data Warehouse Center window, right-click the Warehouse Groups folder and click Define.

    The Warehouse Groups notebook opens.
    The Define Warehouse Group notebook

  2. In the Name field, type the name for the new group:
    Tutorial Warehouse Group
    
  3. In the Administrator field, type your name as the contact for this new group.
  4. In the Description field, type a short description of the new group:
    This is the warehouse group for the tutorial.
    
  5. From the Available privileges list, click >> to select all privileges for your group.

    The Administration and Operations privileges move to the Selected privileges list. Your group now has the following privileges.

    Administration
    Users in the warehouse group can define and change warehouse users and warehouse groups, change Data Warehouse Center properties, import metadata, and define which warehouse groups have access to objects when they are created.

    Operations
    Users in the warehouse group can monitor the status of scheduled processing.
  6. Click the Warehouse Users tab.
  7. From the Available warehouse users list, select the Tutorial User.
  8. Click >.

    The Tutorial User moves to the Selected warehouse users list.
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    The user is now part of the warehouse group.

    Skip the Warehouse sources and targets page and the Processes page. You will create these objects in subsequent lessons. You will authorize the warehouse group to access objects as you create the objects.

  9. Click OK to save the warehouse user group and close the notebook.


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