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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

Feel of data inside Repository - preview


Now that we have learned how to use Sources and Targets in PowerCenter. We will now start using these sources and targets in mappings. As mentioned earlier in the PowerCenter Designer, we only deal with the metadata of sources and targets, we do have an option to preview the data of the source and target that we imported by providing the path/connection for files or tables. This gives us an option to understand the data clearly before we move ahead with the next step.

Previewing the source data - flat files

Follow these steps to preview the data in source:

  1. Drag and drop the ource from Navigator to Source Analyzer. We are using EMP_FILE as our reference to preview data.

  1. Right-click on Source Definition, and click on Preview Data...as shown in the following screenshot:
  2. A new window will pop up asking you to provide the path where your file is stored. Look at the following screenshot below for your reference:
  3. Click on Open to view the preview the data.
  4. Once...