About this Tutorial

This tutorial teaches you how to build a unified solution to address a typical business scenario. For this example, you represent the three departments at ALPHA and build a unified view of your distributed business systems to address customer-reported issues. This example shows how to build the unified view using the following sequence of tasks.

Task	Description	Instructions
1	Add data sources to Studio. You will add the three underlying data sources to the TDV metadata repository so you can query them. Each of these data sources will display as a data source in the resource tree.	Adding Data Sources
2	Build three simple views to retrieve data from the underlying data sources. Each of these views will extract specific information for you to address the business issue.	Building Simple Views
3	Join tables, and provide aliases for column names.
4	Create the final unified view by combining the three individual views. This view unifies the separate pieces of information you retrieve through the three individual views you create.	Creating a Composite View
5	Create a TDV database. This database will be visible to client applications using JDBC and/or ODBC to connect to TDV Server.	Publishing Your Views
6	Publish the unified views as TDV database tables. This unified view provides a single view solution for the business issue.	Publishing Your Views