Lyall, try this, it’s the Oracle 2 day dba course should help you in your creation of the Database http://www.oracle.com/technology/obe/2day_dba/index.html From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of lyallbarbour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: May 12, 2010 4:56 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Oracle data warehouse white papers Hi, I've been asked by my employer to learn about Data Warehousing. We are going to implement a product by our ERP system (financial, HR, etc, etc) vendor and we want to start creating the actual database ware house for it. I'm reading through Oracle® Database Data Warehousing Guide 11g Release 2 (11.2), but haven't found anything specifically talking about the creation of the database yet. What should i be reading? Thanks, Lyall