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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

Working with the Session task and basic properties


Before we can execute the workflow and make the data flow from Source to Target in mapping, we need to configure some basic properties in the Session task. These properties enable the Session task to pick the data from the source and load the data in the target.

Note

Mapping is only a structural representation of the source and target requirement, the actual data movement happens with the properties that we define in the Session task.

To define the properties, perform the following steps:

  1. In the Workflow Manager, open the workflow containing the Session task. Double-click on the Session task, click on Mapping, and click on Source:

    • The Mapping tab of the Session task lets you define the properties for Sources and Targets.
    • Let's discuss the options in detail:
    • Readers: As we are using the Oracle table as our source, the property is mentioned as Relational Reader. It signifies that our source is Table from where we extract the data. If our source...