Book Image

Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x - Second Edition

By : Rahul Malewar
Book Image

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 services


Informatica services include various services that start the service manager on individual nodes.

The service manager

The service manager is the component that starts and runs the application services on the node in a domain.

Repository

The repository is the component that stores the metadata that is created when you work on client tools. The following points describe a repository:

  • It is a centralized database of Informatica PowerCenter, which is used to store the metadata that is created when the code is designed in client tools.
  • When you wish to access the existing components created in the PowerCenter client, the metadata is fetched from the repository and is displayed on the client screen.
  • The repository is created in the database, which is used for installation purposes.
  • Multiple repositories can be created under a domain, with each repository representing a single environment. For example, the REPO_DEV repository represents the development environment, REPO_TEST represents...