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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

Comparing objects


Informatica PowerCenter allows you to compare objects present within a repository. You can compare sources, targets, transformations, Mapplets, and mappings in PowerCenter Designer under Source Analyzer, Target Designer, Transformation Developer, Mapplet Designer, and Mapping Designer respectively. You can compare objects in the same repository or in multiple repositories.

Follow these steps to compare two objects. We are using two sources to compare as an example.

  1. In the Designer, go to Tools|Source Analyzer|Sources|Compare, as shown in the following screenshot:
  2. Select Source 1 and Source 2 that you wish to compare, as shown in the following screenshot:
  3. Click on Compare.
  4. You can check different types of comparison options for the two sources. Informatica PowerCenter Comparison Utility gives the option to check differences in the repository and versions under the General tab. The Table tab allows you to check differences in the owner name and database type. The Column tab...