3-2 Installation Guide for Oracle Business Intelligence
Section 3.3, Create Database Schemas Using the Repository Creation Utility RCU
describes this process.
■
Before you begin using RCU, you should review the Repository Creation Utility RCU Requirements section in the Oracle Fusion Middleware System
Requirements document:
http:www.oracle.comtechnologysoftwareproductsiasfiles fusion_requirements.htm
This section contains important information about your system and component-specific database requirements that should be met before you run
RCU.
3.3 Create Database Schemas Using the Repository Creation Utility RCU
The Repository Creation Utility RCU is a graphical tool for creating and managing Oracle Fusion Middleware database schemas in your database.
The topics in this section relate to the RCU:
■
Section 3.3.1, Database Schemas Created by RCU
■
Section 3.3.2, Sharing Schemas Required by Oracle Business Intelligence
■
Section 3.3.3, Creating Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Schemas on IBM DB2
■
Section 3.3.4, Database Privileges Granted to Oracle Business Intelligence Users
■
Section 3.3.5, Obtaining RCU
■
Section 3.3.6, Running RCU to Create Oracle Business Intelligence Database Schemas
3.3.1 Database Schemas Created by RCU
Before installing Oracle Business Intelligence, use RCU to create the Metadata Services MDS and Business Intelligence Platform BIPLATFORM schemas in your database.
To create the BIPLATFORM and MDS schemas with RCU on Oracle databases, you must possess the DBA privilege and be logged in as SYSDBA for example, as user
SYS . Although you can use another database user that has been granted the SYSDBA
role, this is not recommended. Using database users other than SYS requires additional steps, which are described in RCU Requirements for Oracle Databases in Oracle
Fusion Middleware System Requirements and Specifications.
When you run RCU, you are creating databases schemas and tablespaces using CREATE ANY SCHEMA, ALTER ANY SCHEMA, CREATE TABLE, CREATE
TABLESPACE , and so on. RCU updates the schema_version_registry by writing
entries to the system.schema_version_registry system table.
Note: Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, Oracle
Real-Time Decisions, and Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher support Oracle Database, Microsoft SQL Server, and IBM DB2
databases only. For more information, refer to the System Requirements and Prerequisites document.
Oracle Business Intelligence Requirements 3-3
3.3.2 Sharing Schemas Required by Oracle Business Intelligence
If your organization has an MDS schema installed in a supported database, you do not need to install the MDS schema again with RCU. You can use the existing MDS
schema for your Oracle Business Intelligence installation. For this option, deselect the Metadata Services schema in the Select Components screen of RCU. Then, when you
install Oracle Business Intelligence, specify the details for the existing MDS schema in the
MDS Schema screen.
However, each Oracle Business Intelligence system BI domain requires its own BIPLATFORM schema. Two or more systems cannot share the same BIPLATFORM
schema, although they can share the same database. Therefore, you must run RCU and install the BIPLATFORM schema and the MDS schema if no MDS schema exists
before installing each distinct Oracle Business Intelligence system BI domain. For example, if you plan to install two Oracle Business Intelligence systems, you must run
RCU and install the required schemas twice, or once for each system.
This requirement does not apply when you scale out an Oracle Business Intelligence system. In a scaled out clustered system, you only run RCU and install the database
schemas once, before installing the primary node of the Oracle Business Intelligence cluster the BI domain for the cluster is created at that time. Additional Oracle
Business Intelligence nodes that you install during the scale-out process become members of that domain and, therefore, use the same set of schemas.
3.3.3 Creating Oracle Business Intelligence 11g Schemas on IBM DB2
