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Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x

You're reading from   Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x Enterprise data warehousing and intelligent data centers for efficient data management solutions

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
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ISBN-13 9781788471220
Length 426 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Rahul Malewar Rahul Malewar
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Preface 1. Downloading and Extracting Informatica PowerCenter Software FREE CHAPTER 2. Understanding Admin Console 3. Understanding Designer Screen and its Components 4. The Lifeline of Informatica - Transformations 5. Using the Designer Screen - Advanced Features 6. Implementing SCD Using Designer Screen Wizards 7. Using the Workflow Manager Screen 8. Learning Various Tasks in Workflow Manager screen 9. Advanced Features of Workflow Manager Screen 10. Working with Workflow Monitor - Monitoring the code 11. The Deployment Phase - Using Repository Manager 12. Optimization - Performance Tuning

Source Qualifier transformation


Source Qualifier transformation acts as a virtual source in Informatica. When you drag a relational table or flat file in Mapping Designer, Source Qualifier transformation comes along. Source Qualifier is the point where Informatica processing actually starts. The extraction process starts from the Source Qualifier.

Note

Note that it is always recommended that the columns of Source and Source Qualifier match. Do not change the columns or their data type in the Source Qualifier. You can notice the difference in the data type in the Source Definition and Source Qualifier, which is because Informatica interprets the data in that way only.

To discuss Source Qualifier, let's take an example of the Joiner transformation mapping we created earlier.

As you can notice, there are two Source Qualifier transformations present in mapping: one for flat file and the other for relational database. You can notice that we have connected only three columns from the Source Qualifier...

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