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Data Warehousing Concepts

Introduction
OLTP Databases
OLAP Systems/Decision support Systems
Data Warehouses
Data Warehouse Life Cycle
Data Mining/Knowledge Discovery on Databases

Data Warehousing Modeling

Logical Modeling
i. Data Warehouse Tables
ii. Data Warehouse Columns
iii. Data Warehouse Issues
iv. Data Warehouse Schema

Physical Modeling
i. Hardware and I/O Considerations
ii. Parallelism
iii. Partitioning
iv. Indexes

Informatica

Introduction
Getting started
Informatica Suite Components
Informatica Architecture
Informatica Server
Temp Server

Installing & Configuring Informatica

System Requirements
Informatica Platform setup
i. Getting Started
ii. Installing Repository Server
iii. Installing Informatica Power center Client
iv. Configuring Repository Server
v. Configuring Informatica Server
ETL with Informatica
Creating a Repository
Managing The Repository
ODBC DSN Creation
Designing the ETL
Configuring the Temp server
Specifying the Database Connections

Mappings & Transformations

Defining Source and Targets
Creating a Mapping
Create & Run a Workflow
Features & Techniques
Using the Debugger
Flat file Wizard and Filter Transformation
Expression Transformation
Heterogeneous Join, Aggregator, & Sorter
Look up Transformation
Data Driven Operations
Incremental Update
Router Transformation
Update Strategy Transformation

Variables and parameters

Store procedure transformation

Variable functions