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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

Summary


In this chapter, we talked about various techniques using which you can enhance the performance. We talked about source, target, and transformation bottlenecks. Even after optimizing your source, target, and mapping, your performance is not up to date, then take a look at your session and system bottlenecks. We also slooked at various ways of optimizing the components of the PowerCenter tool. Later, we discussed partitioning and pushdown optimization, using which you can enhance the performance.

With this, we have completed all the concepts of the Informatica PowerCenter tool. In this book, you have learned concepts that are useful for beginner- and intermediate-level experience in the Informatica tool. We have also touched on a lot of advance-level concepts in this book. With some more practice and theory exposure, you will be able to clear the first level in the Informatica Power Center certification.