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What is a Source Qualifier?
It represents all data queried from the source.
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sprajarajan- Member Since Mar-2008 | Aug 8th, 2008
Source Qualifier Is the default Transformation.
Through The source Qualifier Transformation Informatica Reads The Data.
We can Filter The Data.
We can sort the Data.
Its also Used to Join Homogeneous Source systems.
We can Join Any number of Sources in Singlae Source Qualifier.
We Can't Join the Flatfiles In sourcequalifier Because Flatfiles Are Heterogeneous When we open the Flatfiles At sourcequalifier At the time All The options are Disabled.joyfun23
- Jan 26th, 2010
1. Source Qualifier is the most important transformation which convert the source data type in to compatible NATIVE datatype of a mapping.2. Without a SQ a mapping can not be created,?after extractio...
venkat224
- Dec 24th, 2009
Source Qualifier is one of the transformations, which converts any type of data to the relational format. So that, can easily be used for any of the operations on the data.
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How to extract data from XML and flatfiles in informatica?
k.shankar
- Apr 7th, 2011
When importing the source definition, the file must be in a directory local to the client machine. In addition, the Integration Service must be able to access all source files during the session. ...
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What are various types of Aggregation?
Various types of aggregation are SUM, AVG, COUNT, MAX, MIN, FIRST, LAST, MEDIAN, PERCENTILE, STDDEV, and VARIANCE.
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sithusithu
- Jan 19th, 2006
AVG COUNT FIRST LAST MAX MEDIAN MIN PERCENTILE STDDEV SUM VARIANCECheers,Sithu
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Which source definition files are needed to provide support for Mainframes ?
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deepthi_97- Member Since Sep-2009 | Sep 23rd, 2009
Cobol files and we use normalizer transformation
Prabu
- Jun 22nd, 2007
The mainframe files are Used as VSAM files in Informatica by using the Normaliser transformation
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Which transformation you need while using the COBOL sources as source definitions?
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sithusithu- Member Since Dec-2005 | Jan 20th, 2006
Normalizer transformation.
Normalizer transformation which is used to normalize the data.Since COBOL sources are often consists of De-normalized data.sithusithu
- Jan 20th, 2006
Normalizer transformation. Normalizer transformation which is used to normalize the data.Since COBOL sources are often consists of De-normalized data.
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Source table has 1000 rows. In session configuration --- target Load option-- \
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How to lookup the data on multiple tabels.
prasadns26
- Jul 18th, 2006
hi,what ever my friends have answered earlier is correct. to be more specific,if the two tables are relational, then u can use the SQL lookup over ride option to join the two tables in the lookup prop...
rajendar
- Feb 12th, 2006
join the two source by using the joiner transformation and then apply a look up on the resaulting table
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If you are workflow is running slow in informatica. Where do you start trouble shooting and what are the steps you follow?
dashingcar
- Apr 19th, 2010
PowerCenter 8.1.1 Performance Tuning Guide Generally, look for performance bottlenecks in the following order: 1. Target 2. Source 3. Mapping 4. Session 5. System Use the following methods to identify...
rajendar
- Feb 12th, 2006
work flow may be slow due to different reasons one is alpa characters in decimal data check it out this and due to insufficient length of strings check with the sql override
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Could anyone please tell me what are the steps required for type2 dimension/version data mapping. how can we implement it
babushiv
- May 24th, 2010
The Type 2 Dimension Data mapping inserts both new and changed dimensions into the target. Changes are tracked in the target table by versioning the primary key and creating a version number for each ...
Rob
- Apr 25th, 2006
1. Determine if the incoming row is 1) a new record 2) an updated record or 3) a record that already exists in the table using two lookup transformations. Split the mapping into 3 seperate flows using...
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With out using Updatestretagy and sessons options, how we can do the update our target table?
prasadns26
- Jul 18th, 2006
hi,if ur database is teradata we can do it with a tpump or mload external loader.update override in target properties is used basically for updating the target table based on a non key column.e.g upda...
Raajavarman
- Mar 11th, 2006
By default all the rows in the session is set as insert flag ,you can change it in the session general properties -- Treate source rows as :update...
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Two relational tables are connected to SQ Trans,what are the possible errors it will be thrown?
Shanmugam
- Jul 6th, 2006
The only two possibilities as of I know isBoth the table should have primary key/foreign key relation shipBoth the table should be available in the same schema or same database
geek_78
- Feb 18th, 2006
We can connect two relational table in one sq Transformation.No errors will be performRegards,R.Karthikeyan
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What is the best way to show metadata(number of rows at source, target and each transformation level, error related data) in a report format
manikandan1982
- Feb 21st, 2006
You can select these details from the repository table. you can use the view REP_SESS_LOG to get these data
rajarajana
- Feb 15th, 2006
When your workflow get completed go to workflow monitor right click the session .then go to transformation statistics ther we can see number of rows in source and target.if we go for session properties we can see errors related to data
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If u had to split the source level key going into two seperate tables. One as surrogate and other as primary. Since informatica does not gurantee keys are loaded properly(order!) into those tables. What are the different ways you could handle this type of situation?
sreedhar
- Sep 27th, 2006
u r sending data into two different tbls ... of course by setting primary key in the target tables ..the thing is the surrogate key generation requires seperate mapping which suits for scd concept..
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Hy,I want to prepare a questionnaire. The details about it are as follows: -1. Identify a large company/organization that is a prime candidate for DWH project. (For example Telecommunication, an insurance company, banks, may be the prime candidate for this)2. Give at least four reasons for the selecting the organization.3. Prepare a questionnaire consisting of at least 15 non-trivial questions to collect requirements/information about the organization. This information is required to build data warehouse. Can you please tell me what should be those 15 questions to ask from a company, say a telecom company?Thanks,Kashif
Sanyam Mittal
- Feb 26th, 2006
First of all meet your sponsors and make a BRD(business requirement document) about their expectation from this datawarehouse(main aim comes from them).For example they need :customer billing process....
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What is difference between lookup cashe and unchashed lookup?Can i run the mapping with out starting the informatica server?
sn3508
- May 12th, 2008
For 1st question, the above answer is correct.for 2nd, NO, you are even unable to connect to the repository if informatica server is not started. As such, no question of viewing your workflow and running it.
madhu
- Mar 1st, 2006
the difference between cache and uncacheed lookup iswhen you configure the lookup transformation cache lookup it stores all the lookup table data in the cache when the first input record enter into th...
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What is the gap analysis?
vizaik
- Apr 11th, 2007
For a project, there will be: 1.BRD(Business Requirement Document)-BA 2.SSSD(Source System Study Document)-BA BRD consists of the requirements of the client. SSSD consists of the source system study...
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