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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

Summary


In this chapter, we talked about the various aspects of the Workflow Manager Screen. We saw the detailed properties of the session task. Also, you learned about the various tasks present in the Workflow Manager and how to create the tasks and use them in the workflow.

Apart from that, you learned how to work on worklets, which are groups of tasks that allow us to reuse the existing functionality implemented.

In the next chapter, we will talk about the advanced features of the Workflow Manager Screen such as Schedulers, which help us in running the Workflows at a particular interval. You will learn about File lists, which provide us with a simpler way of merging the data from multiple files. Also, you will learn about parameters files using which we can easily pass the values of variables and parameters.