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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

Common Errors


When you execute the session and workflow, there are certain common error that you will face. Some of the common errors are as follows:

  • Source File Not found: This indicates that the source file is not available at the specified location. Make sure you have placed the file in the correct folder.
  • Unable to generate Session log: This may be due to some invalid session task or may show if you don't specify the lookup file name and path in the session task.
  • Table or view not found: This indicates that the database table in which you are willing to load the data is not available. Make sure you have created the table before you load the data in the table.
  • Communication link failure: This indicates that there are network issues affecting the integration service or repository.
  • Failed to allocate memory: This indicates that the memory required for executing the process is not available.
  • Duplicate Primary/Foreign key: This indicates that you are trying to load the duplicate data in the primary...