2 Typical Implementation Events

In any implementation including RDS, there are many steps along the way before a system is running. In the discussion below, cloud services, such as Merchandising Foundation, are the source cloud services and RDS is the target.

• Provisioning

  • Provisioning includes the installation of the RDS Cloud Service including initial infrastructure required. This includes an ADW instance with schemas available for replication and extension, ORDS workspaces, and integration into Oracle Retail Home for display of usage metrics.

• Initial Data Load through Data Pump

  • The next step is creating an initial data load into RDS from the source cloud service using Oracle Data Pump tools. This step is taken by Oracle when the retailer indicates they are ready to move forward.

  • A prerequisite to this step is that the source cloud service must have data ready to be replicated. The initial load may be an involved process depending on the cloud service in question. Refer to documentation for the source cloud service. 

  • The result of this step is that a baseline set of data has been replicated from the source cloud service to the RDS read-only schema.

• GoldenGate Hub Configuration

  • A GoldenGate Hub instance is configured to replicate data from the source cloud service’s database to the RDS read-only schema.

  • This is done by Oracle when the retailer indicates they are ready to move forward.

  • The result of this is that the GoldenGate Hub is running and performing active replication from the source cloud service’s database.

• Extension

  • In this step, the retailer uses the tools that are part of RDS to build the custom extensions they need.