PowerCenter 8 Level I Developer

Education Services
Version PC8LID-20060428

Informatica Corporation, 2006. All rights reserved.

Course Objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to:
Use PowerCenter developer tools to:
Create and debug mappings

Create, run, monitor and troubleshoot workflows

Design basic mappings and workflows

Unit 1. Data Integration Concepts

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Unit Objectives
After completing this unit, you should be able to: Describe Informatica corp and its place in the data integration marketplace Define basic data integration terms and concepts

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Informatica The Data Integration Company

Informatica provides data integration tools for both batch and real-time applications: Data Data Migration Synchronization Business Activity Monitoring Data Warehousing 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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Data Integration Example

Operational Systems
RDBMS Mainframe Other

Decision Support
Data Warehouse

Transaction data Optimized for transaction response time Current Normalized or De-normalized data

Aggregate data Cleanse data Consolidate data Apply business rules De-normalize data

Aggregated data Historical data

Transform

Extract

ETL

Load
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Assembly Line Analogy

Assembly Line Product design High-level instructions Detailed instructions Operational assembly line Operational steps Data Integration Target data model Mapping Transformations Workflow Task

Documented procedures

Metadata

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Mapping
Logically Defines the Data Integration 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

Input Ports

Output Ports

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PowerCenter Transformations (partial list)

Source Qualifier: reads data from flat file and relational sources

Expression: performs row-level calculations

Filter: uses a condition statement to select rows for inclusion 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 or both Links can depend on the successful completion of previous tasks

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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

Repository

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Unit 1 Quiz
Match the terms and explanations: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. ETL Mapping Workflow Metadata Transformation Task a. An executable set of actions, functions or commands b. Defines data and processes c. Generates or manipulates data d. Logically defines the ETL process e. A collection of ordered tasks f. Extract, transform and load data

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