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Introduction to Informatica
Reason for build Data warehouse:

Data warehouse:-(W.H.Inmon)
A data ware house is a
time variant
Non-volatile
Subject oriented
integrated database

Characteristic and Features of DatawareHouse


Time-variant:A Datawarehouse is a time-variant database which supports business needs of
end users in comparing and analyzing the business with different time periods.
This is also knows as time series analysis.

Non-volatile:A data ware house is a non-volatile


once the data entered into the data warehouse it doesnt reflect to the change
which takes place at operational database. Hence the data is static in the data
warehouse.

Subject Oriented:A data warehouse is a subject oriented database which supports the business
need of department specific users. Ex:- sales, accounts, hr. students, lones etc....
A subject is derived from multiple OLTP applications which organizes the data
to meet specific business functionality.

Integrated:A data warehouse is an integrated database which collects the


data from multiple OLTP database

Informatica Concepts
A data warehousing is a process of building a data warehouse. A process
includes.
Business requirement analysis,
database design,
ETL development and testing,
Report development and testing.
A business analysis and onsite technical co-ordinates gathers the business
requirement and technical requirements.

Data Acquisition
It is a process of extracting the relevant business information. Transforming data
into a required business format and loading into the target system. A data
acquision is defined with following type of process
data extraction
data transformation
data loading
There are two type of ETL used to build data Acquisition

Code base ETL


GUI base ETL

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