Informatica Questions - 7

What are the real times problems that generally come up while doing/running mapp
ing/any transformation? Explain with an example?
Here are few real time examples of problems while running informatica mappings:
1) Informatica uses OBDC connections to connect to the databases.The database pa
sswords (production) is changed in a periodic manner and the same is not updated
at the Informatica side. Your mappings will fail in this case and you will get
database connectivity error.
2) If you are using Update strategy transformation in the mapping, in the sessio
n properties
you have to select Treat Source Rows: Data Driven. If we do not select this Info
rmatica
server will ignore updates and it only inserts rows.
3) If we have mappings loading multiple target tables we have to provide the Tar
get Load Plan
in the sequence we want them to get loaded.
4) Error: Snapshot too old is a very common error when using Oracle tables. We g
et this error
while using too large tables. Ideally we should schedule these loads when server
is not very
busy (meaning when no other loads are running).
5) We might get some poor performance issues while reading from large tables. Al
l the source tables should be indexed and updated regularly.