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About the DAC Process Life Cycle

The DAC is used by different user groups to design, execute, monitor, and diagnose data warehouse applications. These phases together make up the DAC process life cycle, as shown in Figure 6.

Figure 6.  DAC Process Life Cycle

The phases of the process and the actions associated with them are as follows:

• Setup (Data warehouse developer)
  • Set up database connections
  • Set up application and database servers
  • Set up email recipients
• Design (Data warehouse developer)
  • Design data warehouse applications
  • Define application objects
• Execute (Data warehouse/ETL administrator)
  • Define scheduling parameters to execute data warehouse applications
  • Deploy data warehouse applications
  • Access run-time controls to restart or stop currently running schedules
• Monitor (Data warehouse/ETL administrator)
  • Monitor run-time execution of data warehouse applications
  • Monitor users, DAC repository, and application maintenance jobs
• Diagnose (Data warehouse/ETL administrator)
  • View the schedule diagnostics at run time or offline through log files
  • Run Exception Report execution plans