Profile database

The contents of the profile database depend entirely on the data you need for configuring your interactive flowcharts and Interact API. Interact requires or recommends that each database contain certain tables or data.

The profile database must contain the following:

All tables mapped in the interactive channel.

These tables must contain all the data required for running your interactive flowcharts in production. These tables should be flattened, streamlined, and properly indexed. As there is a performance cost to access dimensional data, you should use a denormalized schema whenever possible. At a minimum, you should index the profile table on the audience level ID fields. If there are other fields retrieved from dimensional tables, these should be indexed appropriately to reduce database fetch time. The Audience IDs for the profile tables must match the Audience IDs defined in Campaign.

If you set the enableScoreOverrideLookup configuration property to true, you must include a score override table for at least one audience level. You define the score override table names with the scoreOverrideTable property.

The score override table can contain individual customer-to-offer pairings. You can create a sample score override table, UACI_ScoreOverride by running the aci_usertab SQL script against your profile database. You should also index this table on the Audience ID column.

If you set the enableScoreOverrideLookup property to false, you do not need to include a score override table.

If you set the enableDefaultOfferLookup configuration property to true, you must include the global offers table (UACI_DefaultOffers). You can create the global offers table by running the aci_usertab SQL script against your profile database.

The global offers table can contain audience-to-offer pairings.

If you set the enableOfferSuppressionLookup property to true, you must include an offer suppression table for at least one audience level. You define the offer suppression table names with the offerSuppressionTable property.

The offer suppression table can contain a row for each offer suppressed for an audience member, although an entry is not required for all audience members. You can create a sample offer suppression table, UACI_BlackList by running the aci_usertab SQL script against your profile database.

If you set the enableOfferSuppressionLookup property to false, you do not need to include an offer suppression table.

A large amount of data in any of these tables may impede performance. IBM recommends that you put appropriate indexes on the audience level columns for tables used at runtime that have large amounts of data.

All configuration properties referenced above are in the Interact > profile or the Interact > profile > Audience Levels > AudienceLevel category. The aci_usertab SQL script is located in the ddl directory in your runtime environment installation directory.

The following diagram shows example tables for the test run and profile databases for the audience levels Aud1 and Aud2.