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Informatica PowerCenter 9.x Level 1 Developer

Course Description
Delivery Methods
Public Instructor-led training Virtual Public Instructor Led training Onsite Instructor-led training Dedicated Virtual InstructorLed training

Course Overview
This five-day, instructor led course introduces students to Informatica PowerCenter 9.x through lecture and hands-on exercises. The course is designed for Database Developers who are new to Informatica PowerCenter. Informatica PowerCenter is a collection of thick client workbench tools that Developers can use to create, execute, monitor and schedule ETL processes. The course will introduce attendees to working with the PowerCenter Designer, Workflow Manager, and Workflow Monitor tools, performing tasks such as creating transformations, mappings, reusable objects, sessions and workflows to extract, transform and load data. They will develop cleansing, formatting, sorting and aggregating procedures. They can learn how to use routers, update strategies, parameters /variables and overrides. This course will cover many different types of lookups, such as cached, persistent, dynamic and multiple row returns. Workflow tasks will be created to define a set of instructions for executing the ETL.

Course Duration
Five Days of instructor-led training 60% lecture, 40% hands on lab

Target Audience
Database developers with little or no experience of PowerCenter.

Prerequisites
Windows GUI At least two years work experience and some knowledge of SQL Contact your Informatica Education Representative for pricing information

Pricing

Objectives
After successfully completing this course, students should be able to: Use Informatica Support to resolve questions and problems with PC9.x. Use PowerCenter 9.x Designer to build mappings that extract data from a source to a target, transforming it as necessary. Use PowerCenter transformations to cleanse, format, join, aggregate and route data to the appropriate targets Perform error handling/trapping using PowerCenter mappings Use PowerCenter 9.x Workflow Manager to build and run a workflow which executes a sessions associated with a mapping Design and build simple mappings and workflows based on essential business needs. Perform basic troubleshooting using PowerCenter logs and debugger.

More Information

Courses are conveniently scheduled around the world. Please visit our website at www.informatica.com/education to find the class that is right for you. For onsite class information contact your local Education Sales Specialist.

Course Agenda
1. An Overview of Informatica PowerCenter 9
Overview of PowerCenter covering areas such as the Architecture, Terminology, Tools GUI, Mappings, Transformations, Sessions, Workflows and Workflow Monitor

7. Sequence Generators, Lookups and Caching

Define the Sequence Generator Define the Lookup Transformation Understand the different types of Lookups Clarify Lookup Caching Use a Flat File Lookup to add data to a relational target. Build a Dates Lookup Cache for use in determining start and end dates of target records Utilize Event Wait, Event Timer and Email Tasks to wait for flat files and email users upon successful/failed load.

2. ETL Fundamentals
How to create: o Flat file and relational Sources using the Source Analyzer o Flat file and relational Targets using the Target Developer o Mappings using the Mapping Designer o Workflows using the Workflow Designer Monitor the workflow using the Workflow Monitor Preview Target Data using the PowerCenter Designer

8. Update Strategies, Routers and Overrides

Build a mapping that uses Update Strategies and Routers to determine insert/update logic for a target. Overrides will be used for incremental (daily) loading of the target.

3. Trouble Shooting
Understand PowerCenter Log files Use PC log files to: o View and look up error messages o Correct mapping and workflow errors

4. PowerCenter Transformations, Tasks and Reusability

Define list of PC Designer Transformations and Workflow Tasks Clarify Active vs. Passive Transformations Use the Expression Transformation and Editor in a mapping which applies a file list to load multiple flat files into a stage table utilizing expression and filter transformations to format and screen erroneous customer data Use Reusable Designer Transformations to apply same formatting logic to Employee records

9. Sorter, Aggregator, Unconnected Lookups, Mapping Parameter/Variables and Mapplets/Worklets

Define Sorter Transformation Detail Aggregator Transformation and Aggregate Functions Explain Unconnected Lookups and how they are called. Describe Mapping Parameters/Variables and initialization priority Outline Mappets and Worklets Use these Transformations to create a mapping which loads records from warehouse Dimension tables to a Fact table.

10. Workflow Variables and Tasks

Use PC workflow variables to pass information from one point in a workflow to another Use an Assignment task to establish the value of a workflow variable within a workflow Use a decision task to set criteria by which the workflow will decide which execution branch to follow

5. Joins and Link Conditions

Define Joins Clarify Heterogeneous vs. Homogeneous Joins Use a Joiner Transformation to join relational and flat file sources Use the Source Qualify to join two relational sources Make use of Link Conditions to execute one session when the first finishes successfully.

11. Parameter Files and Command Tasks

Use a Parameter file to make mappings and workflows more flexible by defining values for mapping variables, source files, database connections for sessions and workflow log files Use Command Tasks to run scripts to rename and move files

6. Using the Debugger

Outline Debugger Interface Show creation of a break point Show Evaluate the Expression functionality Re-Execute mapping with different values

12. Dynamic Lookups and Error Logging/Handling

Use Dynamic Lookup, Router and Update Strategy in a mapping do a lookup on the target table and determine if the record should be an insert, update or logged to a file as an error. Use PowerCenter Best Practices to create a mapping to trap fatal and non-fatal errors.

14. Mapping Design Workshop

Business requirement details will be provided so that the student can design and build their own mapping necessary to load a Promotions Aggregate table. The workshop will provide Velocity Best Practices documents that can be used to determine the correct logic for the mapping

15. Workflow Design Workshop

Business requirement details will be provided so that the student can design and build their own workflow necessary to load all staging tables in a single workflow. The workshop will provide Velocity Best Practices documents that can be used to determine the correct logic for the workflow.

13. More Lookup Functionality

Create a Multiple Row Return Lookup, use Aggregators and Expressions to count the number of orders a Customer has as well as total the sales for that customer. Add those values to a target.

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Courses are conveniently scheduled around the world. Please visit our website at www.informatica.com/education to find the class that is right for you.

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