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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

The Lifeline of Informatica - Transformations

Transformations form the most important aspect of the Informatica PowerCenter tool. The functionality of any ETL tool lies in the transformations. Needless to say at this point, transformations are used to transform data. Informatica PowerCenter provides multiple transformations, each serving a particular functionality. Transformations can be created as reusable or non-reusable based on the requirement. The transformations created in workflow manager are non-reusable, and those created in task developer are reusable. You can create mapping with a single transformation or with multiple transformations.

When you run the workflow, integration service extracts the data in a row-wise manner from the source path/connection you defined in the session task and makes it flow from the mapping. The data reaches the target through the transformations...

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