Author: Babjee

Informatica Course Content

Pre request: RDBMS Concepts and working knowledge with any database

Agenda
Introduction data warehouse concepts and data warehouse techniques, about star schema ,
snowflack schemas, life cycle of data warehouse etc

PowerCenter 9.5 Architecture

Installation and Configuration
Overview
Installation - Windows
Repository Server Setup - Windows
PowerCenter Server Configuration (Windows)

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Repository Architecture
Repository Server Features
Repository Agents
Repository Types

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Repository Server Administration Console

Repository Tasks
Backup and Restore
Activity Log

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Repository Manager
User Interface
Menus
Security

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Exporting/Importing Objects
Troubleshooting
Error Messages
Error Logs

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data Integration Concepts

Data Integration
Mapping and Transformations
Tasks and Workflows
Metadata
PowerCenter Components and User Interface
o PowerCenter Architecture
o PowerCenter Client Tools
o Lab - Using the Designer and Workflow Manager

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Source Qualifier
Source Qualifier Transformation
Source Qualifier Joins
Source Pipelines
Expression, Filter, File Lists and Workflow Scheduler
o Expression Editor
o Filter Transformation
o File Lists
o Workflow Scheduler
o Lab - Load the Customer Staging Table
Joins, Features and Techniques I
o Joiner Transformation

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Lookups and Reusable Transformations

Lookup Transformation
Reusable Transformations
Debugger
o Debugging Mappings
Sequence Generator
o Sequence Generator Transformation
Lookup Caching, More Features and Techniques
o Lookup Caching
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Sorter, Aggregator and Self-Join

Sorter Transformation
Aggregator Transformation
Active and Passive Transformations
Data Concatenation
Self-Join
Router, Update Strategy and Overrides
o Router Transformation
o Update Strategy Transformation
o Expression Default Values
o Source Qualifier Override
o Target Override
o Session Task Mapping Overrides
Dynamic Lookup and Error Logging
o Dynamic Lookup
o Error Logging
o Lab - Load Customer Dimension Table
Unconnected Lookup, Parameters and Variables
o Unconnected Lookup Transformation
o System Variables
o Mapping Parameters and Variables
Mapplets
o Mapplets

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Mapping Design
Designing Mappings

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Workshop
Workflow Variables and Tasks
o Link Conditions
o Workflow Variables
o Assignment Task
o Decision Task
o Email Task
More Tasks and Reusability
o Event Raise Task
o Event Wait Task
o Command Task
o Reusable Tasks
o Reusable Session Task
o Reusable Session Configuration
o PMCMD Utility
Worklets and More Tasks
o Worklets
o Timer Task
o Control Task
Workflow Design
o Designing Workflows
o Workshop (Optional)
Performance Tuning
o Performance Tuning Overview
o Server Architecture
o Measuring Performance Internal to Informatica
o Establishing Baselines Internal to Informatica
o Identifying Bottlenecks
o Mapping Optimization
o Session Optimization
Mapping Techniques
Mapping Specification Documents
Stored Procedure
Mapping Parameters and Variables
Self Join
Transaction Control Transformation
Data Driven Aggregation
Incremental Aggregation
Unconnected Lookup Techniques
Dynamic Lookup Techniques

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Workflow Techniques
Workflow Alerts
Advanced Command Task and Parameter File Creation

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Data Error Handling

Introduction
Data Error Handling with Transaction Control

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Advanced topic

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Introduction to Grid
Introduction to Partitioning
Introduction to High availability
Pushdown optimization