INFORMATICA9

Prerequisites:SQLBasics DataWarehouseConcepts:
IntroductiontoDataWarehouse WhatisDatawarehouseandwhyweneedDatawarehouse OLTPVSODSVSDatawarehouse Dimensions/Factstables DifferenttypesofDimensionsandFacts SlowlyChangingDimensionsanditstypes Dimensionalmodeling Starschema/snowflakeschema/Galaxyschema DataStagingArea DataMartvsDatawarehouse

InformaticaPowerCenter9.x: SoftwareInstallation:
Informatica8.xServer/ClientInstallationonWindows

PowerCenterArchitectureandComponents:
IntroductiontoinformaticaPowerCenter PowerCenter8.x/9.xarchitecture PowerCenter7architecturevsPowerCenter8architecture Extraction,TransformationandLoadingProcess PowerCentertools:Designer,Workflowmanager,WorkflowMonitor,RepositoryManager. RepositoryServerAdministrationConsole Security,Repository,privilegesandfolderpermissions Metadataextensions

PowerCenterDeveloperTopics: SourceObjectDefinitions
Sourcetypes Sourceproperties

AnalyzeSourceData,importsource.

TargetObjectDefinitions
Targettypes Targetproperties

TransformationConcepts
Transformationtypesandviews Transformationfeaturesandports Informaticafunctionsanddatatypes

Mappings
MappingComponents SourceQualifiertransformation PreSQLandPostSQL Mappingvalidation Dataflowrules

Workflows
WorkflowTools WorkflowStructureandConfiguration WorkflowTasks WorkflowDesignandProperties

SessionTasks SessionTaskProperties SessionComponents Transformationoverrides SessionPartitions

WorkflowMonitoring
WorkflowMonitorViews MonitoringaServer Actionsinitiatedfromtheworkflowmonitor GanttchartViewandTaskview

ExpressionTransformation
Expression,variableports,storingpreviousrecordvalues

DifferenttypeofPorts
Input/output/variableportsandPortEvaluation

Filtertransformation
FilterProperties

Aggregatortransformation
Aggregationfunctionandexpressions Aggregatorproperties UsingStoredData IncrementalAggregation

Joinertransformation
Joinertypes Joinerconditionsandproperties JoinerusageandNestedjoins

WorkingwithFlatfiles
ImportingandEditingflatfilesources&Targets

Sortertransformations
Sorterproperties Sorterlimitations

Lookuptransformation
LookupPrinciples Lookupproperties Lookuptechniques Connectedandunconnectedlookups

DynamicLookup
Dynamiclookuptheory Usageandfunctionality Advantages

TargetOptions
Constraintbasedloading TargetLoadPlan

UpdateStrategytransformation
UpdateStrategyexpressions DataDrivenInsertsandRejects

Routertransformation
Usingarouter Routergroups

HeterogeneousTargets
Heterogeneoustargettypes Targettypeconversionsandlimitations

Mapplets
FunctionalityandAdvantages Mapplettypesandstructure Mappletlimitations

Reusabletransformations
Advantages Limitations PromotingandCopyingtransformations

SequenceGeneratortransformation
UsingaSequenceGenerator SequenceGeneratorproperties

ConcurrentandSequentialWorkflows
ConcurrentWorkflows SequentialWorkflows Stopping,StartingandSuspendingtasksandWorkflows

AdditionalTransformations
UnionTransformation Ranktransformation Normalizertransformation TransformationControltransformation XMLTransformation SQLTransformation StoredProcedureTransformation

WorkflowTasks
Command Email Decision Timer Control EvenRaiseandWait

AdvanceTopics:
PushDownOptimization LinkConditions IncrementalAggregation PartitionTechniques SharedFolderandWorkingwithShortcuts UserDefinedFunctions

TeamBasedDevelopment
VersionControl CheckingOutandCheckinginobjects

PerformanceTuning
OverviewofSystemEnvironment IdentifyingBottlenecks OptimizingSource,Target,Mapping,Transformation,Session.

MappingParametersandVariables
IntroductiontoMappingVariablesandParameters CreatingMappingVariablesandUpdatingVariables CreatingParameterFileandAssociatingfiletoaSession SystemVariables Variablefunctions

SlowlyChangingDimensionsType1,Type2,Type3 ReusableWorkFlowTasks
Worklets WorkletsLimitation

CommandLineInterface(PMCMD)
OverviewofPMCMDandfunctions

Debugger
Debuggerfeatures Debuggerwindow

InformaticaMigrations
CopyingObjects Objectsexportandimport(XML) Deploymentgroups

WorkflowsScheduling
UsingInformatica

InformaticaProjectCaseStudy
SalesDatamart/BankingDomain LoadingDimensionsandFacts.