Informatica

Informatica Overview
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History of Informatica

Opportunities of Informatica

Other ETL tools

Power center Administration

Informatica Power center architecture

Power center components

ETL Plan

Power center Clients

Designer

Workflow manager

Work Flow monitor

Workflow manager

Repository manager

Power center repository

Administrative tool

Repository services

Integration services

Power center domain

Application services

Concept of nodes and grid

Service manager

Power center administration console

Repository Administration

Creating Repository Users and Groups.

Connecting to the Repository.

Creating a Group

Assigning Privileges to a Group.

Creating a User

Creating a Folder

Folder Permissions

Types of Transformations

Connected and Unconnected Transformations

Active and Passive Transformations

Creating Source Tables

Creating Target Definitions

Creating Target Tables

Creating source definitions

Creating a Mapping

Connecting Transformations

Transformation Creation

Importing sources and targets (database objects)

Importing sources and targets (flat files and XML

files)

Using Transformations

Aggregator Transformation

Expression Transformation

Lookup Transformation (Connected and Un

Connected)

Union Transformation

Joiner Transformation

Filter Transformation

Sequence Generator Transformation

DESIGNER

Stored Procedure Transformation

Source Qualifier Transformation

Router Transformations

Rank Transformations

Update Strategy Transformation

XML Transformation

SQL Override in source qualifier Transformation and

lookup Transformation

Connecting the Target

Connecting Transformations

Creating a Mapping

Completing the Mapping

Creating a Pass-Through Mapping

Creating a Mapping with SCD Type 1 and SCD Type

2

Creating a Mapping with Aggregate Values

Target load order plan

Mapping wizards

Reusable Transformation

Mapplet overview and usage

WORKFLOW MANAGER
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Creating the Session

Creating the Workflow

Using the workflow manager

Creating Sessions and Workflows

Constraint base loading

Configuring Database Connections in the Workflow Manager

Creating a Reusable Session

Creating a Workflow

Running and Monitoring Workflows

Opening the Workflow Monitor

Workflow Tasks

Session

Assignment task

Link task

Event raise task

Event wait task

Timer task

Post session and Pre-session commands

Session recovery

Commit points

Creation of Parameter file

Mapping and session parameter

Performance tuning in ETL

Various optimization techniques

Pushdown optimization

Incremental aggregation

WORKFLOW MONITOR
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How to monitor loads

Uses of Workflow monitor

Monitoring the jobs

How to get Session Logs and Workflow Logs