Business Intelligence Cookbook: A Project Lifecycle Approach Using Oracle Technology

Creating your glossary

The glossary stores all the abbreviations for your data model.

Getting ready

Understand your organizations' standards to shorten names and standard naming conventions for column headers within reports. Gather some samples if they do not exist to determine if you can uncover a pattern, for example, Cust for Customer, Sup for Suppliers, and so on.

How to do it...

By creating a glossary, you can save substantial amounts of time and apply standards consistently as follows:

1. Click on Tools | Glossary Editor:
   
2. Navigate to your BI_Data_Models directory, and enter a name for the file. Then, click on Open:
3. Enter Name, Description, and begin ...