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Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x

Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x - Second Edition

By : Rahul Malewar
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Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x

Learning Informatica PowerCenter 10.x

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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.
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File list - the indirect way


File list is a concept that provides you with an easier way to merge the data and load it into the target. As the name suggests, the name is specifically related to Flat files. This is an indirect way of passing the source file. We have seen earlier that we define the source path and Source file name under the Mapping tab in the session task. There is another property in the session task called Source file type, where you can select the Direct or Indirect option as shown in the following screenshot:

When we select Source filetype as Direct, Informatica directly goes to the defined Source file directory path and extracts the data from the file name defined in the Source filename option. When you select Source filetype as Indirect, Informatica reads the data from the file mentioned indirectly. Let's take an example to understand the concept.

Consider you have been provided with three source files with the same structure but different data. The names of the Source...

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