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Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x - Second Edition

By : Rahul Malewar
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Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x - Second Edition

By: Rahul Malewar

Overview of this book

Informatica PowerCenter is an industry-leading ETL tool, known for its accelerated data extraction, transformation, and data management strategies. This book will be your quick guide to exploring Informatica PowerCenter’s powerful features such as working on sources, targets, transformations, performance optimization, scheduling, deploying for processing, and managing your data at speed. First, you’ll learn how to install and configure tools. You will learn to implement various data warehouse and ETL concepts, and use PowerCenter 10.x components to build mappings, tasks, workflows, and so on. You will come across features such as transformations, SCD, XML processing, partitioning, constraint-based loading, Incremental aggregation, and many more. Moreover, you’ll also learn to deliver powerful visualizations for data profiling using the advanced monitoring dashboard functionality offered by the new version. Using data transformation technique, performance tuning, and the many new advanced features, this book will help you understand and process data for training or production purposes. The step-by-step approach and adoption of real-time scenarios will guide you through effectively accessing all core functionalities offered by Informatica PowerCenter version 10.x.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Informatica installation - the prerequisites


Please be careful while you are doing the installation as any issues with the minimum system requirements might hamper the Informatica PowerCenter installation process and you might have to re-initiate the complete installation.

The following points show some prechecks that you need to do before initiating the installation:

  • Operating system: Informatica PowerCenter can be installed on Windows-based operating systems or UNIX-based operating systems. Informatica releases different versions of software for different UNIX-based operating systems. For all Windows operating systems, we have a common installable. In this book, we will refer to the Windows operating system.
  • Database: Informatica PowerCenter requires a database for configuration. Make sure you have installed a database (Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, or DB2). In this book, we will refer to Oracle the a database. The installation process requires two different database users. Please make sure you create two database users with all admin privileges. In this book, we are using SYSTEM as one user and HR as the other user.
  • System requirements: We need to check the system capabilities before we proceed with the installation. Informatica recommends 6 GB of RAM for the installation, but practically even 2 GB of RAM works well. The difference shows up in the processing, but it won't hamper the installation process.

Also, approximately 35 GB of hard disk space will be required for the downloaded, extracted, and installed files and folders.

Before downloading the Informatica software, please check whether your machine is a 32-bit or 64-bit one. Informatica 10.1.0 version can be installed only on a 64-bit machine as against previous versions of Informatica, which can be installed on 32-bit and 64-bit machines.

Once you have checked the minimum system requirements, we are all set to take the next step towards installation.