Tasks and Task Developer in Informatica PowerCenter Workflow Manager

Tasks and Task Developer in Informatica PowerCenter Workflow Manager

The Informatica PowerCenter Workflow Manager contains many types of tasks to help you build workflows and worklets. You can create reusable tasks in the Task Developer. Or, create and add tasks in the Workflow or Worklet Designer as you develop the workflow. In this article lets see very commonly used Tasks for Workflow or Worklet development.

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Re-Keying Surrogate Key For Dimension & Fact Tables. Need, Impact and Fix

Re-Keying Surrogate Key For Dimension & Fact Tables. Need, Impact and Fix

A surrogate key is an artificial key that is used as a substitute for a natural key. Every surrogate key points to a dimension record, which represent the state of the dimension record at a point in time. We join between dimension tables and fact tables using surrogate keys to get the factual information at a point in time. In this article lets see the need of surrogate key re-keying, the impact of re-keying and possible fix.

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Data Manipulation Using Update Strategy in Informatica PowerCenter

Data Manipulation Using Update Strategy in Informatica PowerCenter

It is obvious that we need data manipulation such as Insert, Update and Delete in an ETL job, Informatica PowerCenter provides Update Strategy transformation to handle any such data manipulation operations. Lets understand Update Strategy Transformation in detail.

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Stored Procedure Transformation to Leverage the Power of Database Scripts

Stored Procedure Transformation to Leverage the Power of Database Scripts

A Stored Procedure is an important tool for populating and maintaining databases. Since stored procedures allow greater flexibility than SQL statements, database developers and programmers use stored procedures for various tasks within databases. Informatica PowerCenter provides Stored Procedure Transformation to leverage the power of Database Scripting. In this article lets see it in more in detail about how to use Stored Procedure Transformation.

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Change Data Capture (CDC) Implementation for Multi Sourced ETL Processes

Change Data Capture (CDC) Implementation for Multi Sourced ETL Processes

We have discussed couple of different options for Change Data Capture including a Change Data Capture Framework in our prior discussions. Implementing change capture for ETL process which involves multiple data source needs special care to capture changes from any of your data source. Here in this article lets see CDC implementation for ETL Process which involve multiple data sources.

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