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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

Working with Sources


Any file or table from where we can extract the data in PowerCenter is referred to as the Source. You can import or create the source definition.

When you import the source definition in Designer, we import only the metadata, that is column names, data type, size, indexes, constraints, dependencies, and so on. Actual data never comes with the Source structure in Designer. The data flows through the mapping in a row-wise manner when we execute the workflow in Workflow Manager.

PowerCenter allows you to work on various types of sources as listed here:

  • Relational Database: PowerCenter supports all the Relations Databases, such as Oracle, Sybase, DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, SAP HANA, and Teradata.
  • File: This includes flat files (fixed width and delimited files), COBOL Copybook files, XML files, and Excel files.
  • High-end applications: Hyperion, PeopleSoft, TIBCO, Web Sphere MQ, and so on can also be used.
  • Mainframe: Additional features of Mainframe such as IBM DB2 OS/390, IBM DB2...
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