what is Oracle data integrator?

Question

What is ODI? what is the actual use of ODI? how oracle data integrator tool, helps with programming? what actually is the difference between an sql developer tool and an ODI too

Answer 1

ODI is an ETL tool. It has two main advantages over competing products:

1) It uses an ELT type approach, i.e. all of the transformations happen on the target datawarehouse server in SQL. This means that ODI is not a black box and developers know exactly what is going on. This is great for debugging. It also means that ODI can leverage the horse power of the target warehouse server and does not require any additional application servers like traditional ETL tools, Informatica etc. It lowers the TCO.

2) The main advantage of ODI over competitive products is the code template approach. This guarantees extreme reusability of your and your developer's ETL code. Data transformation logic and strategies are encapsulated in so called Knowledge Modules and can be reused across your data warehouse. This may cut down development time by 30-50%.

Links to ODI tutorials can be found on the BI Quotient blog