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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

Creating a mapping and using transformation features


In the earlier section, we learned about all the prerequisites for creating mapping. Mapping is a structural flow of data from the source to the target through transformations.

To understand the basic steps of creating mapping, let's start by creating a pass-through mapping. A pass-through mapping inserts all the source rows into the target without any modification. A pass-through mapping is a simple flow from source to target without any changes in data.

We will use the EMPLOYEE Oracle table as the source and the TGT_EMPLOYEE as the target for creating a pass-through mapping.

In the following steps, you create a mapping and link columns in the source EMPLOYEES table to a Source Qualifier transformation.

  1. Go to Tools | Mapping Designer | Mappings | Create... to create a new mapping:
  1. In the Mapping Name dialog box, enter m_PASS_THROUGH_EMPLOYEES, and click on OK.
  1. Drag the EMPLOYEES source definition into the Mapping Designer workspace.
  2. The source...