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Informatica PowerCenter on Grid for Greater Performance and Scalability
Informatica has developed a solution that leverages the power of grid computing for greater data integration scalability and performance. The grid option delivers the load balancing,...
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Informatica PowerCenter Load Balancing for Workload Distribution on Grid
Informatica PowerCenter Workflows runs on grid, distributes workflow tasks across nodes in the grid. It also distributes Session, Command, and predefined Event-Wait tasks within workflows across the...
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Surrogate Key in Data Warehouse, What, When, Why and Why Not
Surrogate keys are widely used and accepted design standard in data warehouses. It is sequentially generated unique number attached with each and every record in a Dimension table in any Data...
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Surrogate Key Generation Approaches Using Informatica PowerCenter
Surrogate Key is sequentially generated unique number attached with each and every record in a Dimension table in any Data Warehouse. We discussed about Surrogate Key in in detail in our previous...
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Informatica Performance Tuning Guide, Performance Enhancements - Part 4
In our performance turning article series, so far we covered about the performance turning basics, identification of bottlenecks and resolving different bottlenecks. In this article we will cover...
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SOFT and HARD Deleted Records and Change Data Capture in Data Warehouse
In our couple of prior articles we spoke about change data capture, different techniques to capture change data and a change data capture frame work as well. In this article we will deep dive into...
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Design Approach to Handle Late Arriving Dimensions and Late Arriving Facts
In the typical case for a data warehouse, dimensions are processed first and the facts are loaded later, with the assumption that all required dimension data is already in place. This may not be true...
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Informatica PowerCenter Design Best Practices and Guidelines
A high-level systematic ETL design will help to build efficient and flexible ETL processes. So special care should be given in the design phase of your project. In following we will be covering the key...
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Transaction Control Transformation to Control Commit and Rollback in Your ETL
In a typical Informatica PowerCenter workflow data is committed to the target table after a predefined number of rows are processed into target, which is specified in the session properties. But there...
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Data Security Using Informatica PowerCenter Data Masking Transformation
You might have come across scenario where in you do not have enough good data in your Development and QA regions for your testing purpose; and you are not allowed to copy over data from production...
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How to Avoid The Usage of SQL Overrides in Informatica PowerCenter Mappings
Many Informatica PowerCenter developers tend to use SQL Override during mapping development. Developers finds it easy and more productive to use SQL Override. At the same time ETL Architects do not...
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How to Use Error Handling Options and Techniques in Informatica PowerCenter
Data quality is very critical to the success of every data warehouse projects. So ETL Architects and Data Architects spent a lot of time defining the error handling approach. Informatica PowerCenter is...
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Informatica Incremental Aggregation Implementation and Business Use Cases
Incremental Aggregation is the perfect performance improvement technique to implement; when you have to do aggregate calculations on your incrementally changing source data. Rather than forcing the...
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Informatica Cloud Designer for Advanced Data Integration On the Cloud
Informatica Cloud is an on-demand subscription service that provides cloud applications. It uses functionality from Informatica PowerCenter to provide easy to use, web-based applications. Cloud...
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Informatica Cloud for Dummies - Informatica Cloud, Components & Applications
Informatica Cloud is an on-demand subscription service that provides cloud applications. When you subscribe to Informatica Cloud, you use a web browser to connect to Informatica Cloud. Informatica...
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Informatica Cloud Mapping Tutorial for Beginners, Building the First Mapping
In the last couple of articles we discussed the basics of Informatica Cloud and Informatica Cloud Designer. In this tutorial we describe how to create a basic mapping, save and validate the mapping,...
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Dynamic Transformation Port Linking Rules in Infromatica Cloud Designer
One of the coolest features which was missing in Informatica PowerCenter was the capability to dynamically link ports between transformations. Many other ETL tools has already been providing this...
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An ETL Parameter Framework to Deal with all sorts of Parametrization Needs
We spoke about different etl frameworks in our prior articles. Here in this article lets talk about an ETL framework to deal with parameters we normally use in different ETL jobs and different use...
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