Explain about Live data and Staged Data?

During the creation of Profile definition, we can select one of the option (Live data or Staged data) for
the data drill down.

 Live Data: – It’s the default type of drill down for any profile definition, Live data access the row
data you drill down on the source.
 Staged Data: – All the row data are staged in the profiling warehouse.

What are the connected or unconnected transformations?

Transformations can be connected to the data flow, or they can be unconnected. An unconnected
transformation is not connected to other transformations in the mapping. An unconnected
transformation is called within another transformation and returns a value to that transformation.

What is Join Analysis Profiling?

Join analysis describes the degree of potential joins between two data columns. Use a join profile to
analyze column joins in a data source or across multiple data sources.

A join profile displays results as a Venn diagram and as numerical and percentage values. You create and
run a join profile from an enterprise discovery profile.

What is active and passive transformation?

The Active and passive transformation in Informatica transform records in two distinct
ways. Passive transformations do not change the number of rows that pass through the
mapping. In contrast, an active transformation change the number of rows that pass through
the mapping.