Pushdown optimization in informatica PowerCenter

This article will help you to understand Pushdown Optimization technique to enhance Informatica ETL performance. We will see how to implement Pushdown optimization and its limitation. Author: Dhandhaliya Dhiraj Informatica ETL Developer | SQL Developer | IICS Developer | IDQ Developer Email | Linkedin Profile   What is Pushdown Optimization? Pushdown Optimization is use to increase […]

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Informatica services stops automatically

Informatica Services are Getting Stop Automatically All of a sudden i couldn’t connect to Repository, I am getting an error. Usually this error comes if the Informatica service is not running. I tried to restart the service in services.msc but its not even starting. I tried many times but the result was same. My Repository […]

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Informatica certification – Transformations

Working with Transformations – My Notes — Transformation Overview —  Which is the repository object that generates, modifies, or passes data? Ans:- A Transformation. Which transformation performs calculations on groups of data? Ans:- Aggregator Transformation. What are the actions performed by Active Transformations? Ans:- Change the number of rows that pass through the transformation, Change […]

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Informatica certification – Lookup Transformation

Lookup Transformation – My Notes What is Lookup transformation? Ans:- It can be used to look up data in a flat file, relational table, source Qualifier, view, or synonym. What are the various tasks can be performed by Lookup Transformation? Ans:- Get a related value, Get multiple values, Perform a calculation, Update slowly changing dimension […]

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Informatica Certification – My Notes

The below question and answers are my preparation notes for Informatica Developer Specialist certification which I am planning to take some time in June. I will continue update this page as i go through various topics as per syllabus. Just follow me, will do it together and become informatica certified specialists.  🙂  What is the primary unit for […]

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Informatica Certification Developer Specialist

PowerCenter Data Integration 9.x: Developer, Specialist Certification This is Skill set Inventory document from Oracle website. Here you will get all the information which is required for the Informatica certification Perspective. About the Informatica Certified Professional (ICP) Program Informatica certification is a two-stage structure that correlates professional certification with the “what, why and how” of […]

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Informatica Target Load Plan

Target Load Group and Target Load Plan   If you have multiple Source Qualifier transformations connected to multiple targets, you can specify the order in which  the Integration Service loads the data into the targets using ‘Target Load Plan’. This will give you an option to control which target load order group need to execute first and […]

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How to fix [Informatica][ODBC Oracle Wire Protocol Driver] Optional feature not implemented

[Informatica][ODBC Oracle Wire Protocol Driver] Optional feature not implemented You may get this error while trying to Preview data on Target in a Mapping Designer. I have also seen the same error from Source Qualifier Transformation while applying SQ properties. Let’s see how to fix this error. This is a part of ODBC Data Source configuration, […]

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Source Qualifier – Full Outer Join

Full Outer Join using Source Qualifier – ‘SQL Query’ Integration service support only Left & Right outer joins. We cannot perform Full outer join using ‘User Defined Join’ properties in SQ, you will get a database error. This can be done by using overriding default ‘SQL query‘ in SQ. Full Outer Join Query SELECT EMP_JOB1.JOB_ID, […]

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