2 Before You Begin

These topics provides an overview of the Oracle BI Administration tool, and explains other concepts that you must know before beginning to build a metadata repository.

This chapter contains the following topics:

• About the Oracle BI Administration Tool

• About the Oracle BI Server Command-Line Utilities

• About Options in NQSConfig.INI

• About the SampleApp.rpd Demonstration Repository

• Download Repository Command

• Using Online and Offline Repository Modes

• Checking the Consistency of a Repository or a Business Model