PowerCenter Level1 Unit01

PowerCenter 8
Level I Developer
Education Services
Version PC8LID-20060428
Informatica Corporation, 2006. All rights reserved.
Course Objectives
Enable you to use PowerCenter developer tools to:
Create and debug mappings
Create, run, monitor and troubleshoot workflows
Provide experience in designing mappings and

workflows
Unit 1. Data Integration Concepts
Unit 1
Unit Objectives
Introduce Informatica
Understand data integration concepts
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Informatica The Data Integration

Company
Informatica provides data integration tools for both
batch and real-time applications:
Data Migration
Data Warehousing
Data
Synchronization
Business Activity
Monitoring
Data Hubs
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Informatica Company Information
Founded in 1993
Leader in enterprise solution products
Headquarters in Redwood City, CA
Public company since April 1999 (INFA)
2000+ customers, including over 80% of Fortune 100
Strategic partnerships with IBM Global Services, HP, Accenture, SAP, and
many others
Technology partnership with Composite Software for Enterprise Information

Integration (EII) real-time federated views and reporting across multiple
data sources
Worldwide distribution
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Informatica Affiliations
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Informatica Resources
www.informatica.com provides information (under Services) on:
Professional Services
Education Services
my.informatica.com customers and contractual partners can sign up
to access:
Technical Support
Product documentation (under Tools online documentation)
Velocity Methodology (under Services)
Knowledgebase
Mapping templates
devnet.informatica.com sign up for Informatica Developers Network
Discussion forums
Web seminars
Technical papers
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Extract, Transform and Load Example

Decision Support
Operational Systems
RDBMS
Mainframe
Data
Other
Transaction data
Optimized for transaction
response time
Current
Normalized or
De-normalized data
Extract
Warehouse
Aggregate data
Cleanse data
Consolidate data
Apply business rules
De-normalize data
Aggregated data
Historical data
Transform
ETL
Unit 1
Load
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Assembly Line Analogy

Assembly Line
ETL
Product design
Target data model
High-level instructions
Mapping
Detailed instructions
Transformations
Operational assembly line
Workflow
Operational steps
Task
Documented procedures
Metadata
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Mapping
Logically Defines the ETL Process:
Reads data from sources
Applies transformation logic to data
Writes transformed data to targets
Source
Transformations
Target
Note: Sources and targets can be flat files, relational tables, XML files,
application systems, message queues, etc
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Transformations
Generate, modify, or pass data
Data passes into and out of

transformations through ports that
you link in a mapping
Passive transformations do not

change the number of rows received
Active transformations can change

the number of rows received
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PowerCenter Transformations (partial list)

Source Qualifier: reads data from flat file and relational sources
Expression: performs row-level calculations
Filter: drops rows conditionally
Sorter: sorts data
Aggregator: performs aggregate calculations
Joiner: joins heterogeneous sources
Lookup: looks up values and passes them to other objects
Update Strategy: tags rows for insert, update, delete, reject
Router: routes rows conditionally
Transaction Control: allows data-driven commits and rollbacks
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Advanced PowerCenter Transformations

Union: Performs a union-all join between two data streams
Java: allows Java syntax to be used within PowerCenter
Midstream XML Parser: reads XML from anywhere in mapping
Midstream XML Generator: writes XML to anywhere
More Source Qualifiers: read from XML, message queues

and applications
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Task
An executable set of actions, functions or
commands
Examples:
Session task runs a mapping
Command task runs a shell script
Email task sends an email
Decision task branches workflow conditionally
Timer task waits for a specified period
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Workflow
A collection of ordered tasks
Tasks can be linked sequentially, concurrently and/or combined
Links can be conditional on previous tasks completing
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Metadata
Defines data and processes
Examples:
Source and target definitions
Type (flat file, database table, XML file, etc)
Datatype (character string, integer, decimal, etc)
Other attributes (length, precision, etc.)
Mapping logic
Workflow logic
Stored in a metadata repository
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Repository
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Unit 1 Quiz
Match the terms and explanations:
1.
ETL
2.
Mapping
3.
a.
An executable set of actions,

functions or commands
Workflow
b.
Defines data and processes
4.
Metadata
c.
Generates or manipulates data
5.
Transformation
d.
Logically defines the ETL process
6.
Task
e.
A collection of ordered tasks
f.
Extract, transform and load data
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Informatica Corporation, 2006. All rights reserved.

Provide experience in designing mappings and

Unit 1. Data Integration Concepts

Informatica The Data Integration

Informatica Company Information

Leader in enterprise solution products

Headquarters in Redwood City, CA

Public company since April 1999 (INFA)

2000+ customers, including over 80% of Fortune 100

Technology partnership with Composite Software for Enterprise Information

Extract, Transform and Load Example

Assembly Line Analogy

Target data model

Operational assembly line

Generate, modify, or pass data

Data passes into and out of

Passive transformations do not

Active transformations can change

PowerCenter Transformations (partial list)

Advanced PowerCenter Transformations

More Source Qualifiers: read from XML, message queues

Stored in a metadata repository

An executable set of actions,

Defines data and processes

Generates or manipulates data

Logically defines the ETL process

A collection of ordered tasks

Extract, transform and load data

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