Informatica Developer: Tips & Tricks for Mapping Designer

Barry Wildhagen Professional Services

Agenda
Introduction Designer tips & tricks Best practices Mapping techniques Data Stencil Option

Introduction

About Me
Barry Wildhagen Senior Consultant Informatica Professional Services Based in The Netherlands

About this Presentation

Increase developer productivity More resources available
http://my.informatica.com http://devnet.informatica.com Velocity methodology Product manuals

Questions

PowerCenter 8 Architecture
Domain
Sources
Integration Service

Targets

Repository Service Repository Service Process

Administration Console

PowerCenter Client

This session

Repository

PowerCenter 8 Designer

Designer Tips & Tricks

User Interface
Welcome screen Repository Navigator Output Window Workspace Toolbars Workbook Context menus Options and Customization

Using Designer
Port propagation Query Tools shortcuts Autolink Copy/paste Create target from transformation

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Best Practices

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General Best Practices

Naming conventions Use comments in objects Avoid implicit data conversion Reuse as much as possible Only connect what is used Utilize single-pass reads

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Output Filename Port

Write records to a dynamically named flat file

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Cache Calculator
Use the cache calculator for aggregator, joiner, rank, and sorter transformations

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Group Expression
Add expression transformation after a source qualifier and before a target If source or target definition changes, reconnecting ports is much easier

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MX Views
Views in PowerCenter repository Based on OPB tables Utilized by Repository Reporting (Data Analyzer) Contain a lot of valuable information!!

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Mapping Techniques

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De-normalizing Data With an Aggregator

Turn multiple rows

Into one row

YEAR,ACCOUNT,MONTH1,MONTH2,MONTH3, MONTH4, MONTH5, MONTH12 1997,Salaries,21000,21000,22000,19000,23000,26000,29000,29000,34000,34000..

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De-normalizing Data with an Aggregator

The First or Last function will denormalize data

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Multi-record Lookup
Regular lookup only returns one row Use SQL Transformation to get all rows

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Data Stencil

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Data Stencil
Captures best practice DI methodologies as reusable templates Reusable mapping templates defined in Visio Automates mapping creation and addresses productivity Allows high level design of mappings For DI architects

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Thank You

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