INFORMATICA COURSE

Duration  45 Hours
Material  Will providing comeplete material with Lab Practice guide.
Power Point  For all the critical topics will show data flow using PPTs.

Introduction to DWH
 Introduction to DWH
 DWH purpose and usage
 Decision Support system
 OLTP and OLAP Systems
 Normalization rules
 Komball and Inmon Approaches
 Dimension and Fact Tables in DWH
 Different types of Dimensions and Fact Tables
 Schemas
 Star and Snow Flake Schema
 Advantages and disadvantages

Informatica Architecture
 Introduction to Architecture
 Differences between 7 and 8 versions

Informatica Designer
 Source and Target Analyzer
 Transformation Developer
 Mapping and Mapplet designer
 WORKING with Flat Files and Tables
 Transformations:
 Each transformation scope and functionality
 Usage of transformations in different situations
 Interview questions on each transformation
 Debugger functionality and usage

SQL Query Overrides

 Purpose of the Source, Lookup and Target overrides queries and
advantages

Mapplets, Reusable and Shared Objects

 Scope of Reusable transformations and Shared Objects
 Creating Mapplets, its usage and limitations

Parameters and Variables

 Using Mapping parameters and variables with real time situations
 Incremental Load Concepts with Parameters and Variables
 Dynamic and Staic Parameter Files
Caches
 Usage of Caches and Advantages
 Static, Dynamic and Persistant ccches and uses.

Slowly Changing Dimensions (SDCs)

 SCD conecpts and purpose.
 Type I, TypeII and TypeIII scds implementation.

Performance Tuning
 SQL override Query tuning
 Improving Mapping performance

Workflow Manager
 Creating sessions and Workflows
 Creating reusable sessions and Worklets
 Each task scope and functionality
 Session settings for each task
 workflow settings
 Scheduling workflows in informatica

Scheduling tools:
 Purpose and usage of scheduling tools
 Advantages of using third party scheduling tools

Advanced Topics
 SQL Transformation purpose and usage
 Pushdown Optimization Technique and Usage

Informatica 9.0 version options

 New features in informatia 9.0

Design documents and Unit Testing process

 Sample design documents and unit test case templates
 Preparation of High level and low level documents
 Conducting unit testing with test cases

Deployment
 Deployment process
 Integration of the code
 Pre and post deployment check points
 Pre and post deployment issue fixing

UNIX
 Required UNIX commands
 Purpose of UNXI in informatica
 Using UNIX scripts from Informatica COMMAND tasks
 Scripts(.ksh) using in real time for SPLIT, ZIP, Archive and Cleaning
purpose