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Lab 1
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BANGALORE TECHNICAL TRAININGS..........................1 Onlinetrainingsbglr@gmail.com.....................................1 +917411642061.................................................................1 Lab 1.................................................................................1 Lab at a Glance................................................................3 Lab at a Glance................................................................3 Objectives..............................................................3 Duration.................................................................3 Exercises.........................................................................4 Exercises.........................................................................4 Exercise 1: Import a Source Schema ....................4

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Lab at a Glance
The exercises in this lab are designed to walk the student through the process of creating source & target definitions by importing metadata from a relational database table.

Objectives
After completing the lab, the student will be able to: Start the PowerCenter Designer. Open a folder. Import a relational source definition. Create metadata extensions. Import a relational target definition. Save the repository.

Duration
This lab should take approximately 20 minutes.

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Exercises
Exercise 1: Import a Source Schema
This exercise walks the student through the process of creating a source definition from the EMPLOYEE table. Step 1. Start the PowerCenter Designer. Select Start | Programs | Informatica Platform 9.0 | PowerCenter 9.0 - Client | Designer . You can turn off the Start Page by selecting Windows | Windows. Then select Start Page and click the Close Window(s) button. Step 2. Connect to the repository. Select the PC_Course repository. Select Repository | Connect. The Connect to Repository dialog box appears:

Enter the assigned username and password-username: studentxx password: studentxx (where xx is your student number). Click the Connect button. Step 3. Open the folder.
Note that there is a difference between an expanded folder and an open folder even though they both appear the same in the Navigator window. Before PowerCenter objects can be added, deleted or modified, a folder must be explicitly opened.

Right-click on the Studentxx folder and select Open. When a folder is opened for the first time, the Source Analyzer tool will be opened in the workspace.

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Step 4. Open the Source Analyzer. If the Source Analyzer is not already open, select Tools |
Source Analyzer,

or click the Source Analyzer

button in

the toolbar. The Source Analyzer window opens by default maximized and with workbook tabs. If your setting are different:

The Workbook View allows easy navigation among open folders.

Maximize the Source Analyzer window by clicking on the maximize window button. Create workbook tabs at the bottom of the workspace by selecting View | Workbook.

Step 5. Import the source definition.

A PowerCenter source definition defines the structure, or schema, of source data to be read by the PowerCenter Server. For a relational source, this includes information about each of the columns including key designation, data type, precision and scale.

Select Sources | Import from Database. The Import Tables dialog box appears.

Select the ODBC data source that corresponds to the location of the source tables from the pull-down list.
The database user and password are NOT the same as the PowerCenter repository user and password.

There is no student number after sdbu; all students read from the same source schema.

Enter the database username and password: username: sdbu owner: SDBU password: sdbu

Note that the Owner name field defaults to the username that was

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entered.

Click the Connect button. Once the Connect button changes to read Re-connect, a direct connection to the source database has been established. In the Select Tables window, expand the database owner name (SDBU). Expand the TABLES node. Select the EMPLOYEE table:

Click the OK button. The new source table definition now appears in the Source Analyzer workspace:

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Note that the EMPLOYEE source definition is also added to the Sources node in the Navigator window:

Step 6. Edit the source definition. In the Source Analyzer workspace, double-click on the header of the EMPLOYEE source definition. The Edit Tables dialog box appears. In the Table tab, Description field, enter the following text:
This source comes from the CRM system and includes all Sales Representatives from the Sales Department.

Select the Columns tab. Select TYPE_CODE. In the Description field (at the bottom of the dialog box), enter the following text: Human Resource Job Code.

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Note that the Description field can be used to add a description for each column. To associate a description with a particular column, highlight the column and enter a description in the Description field.

Click

Apply.

Step 7. Create metadata extensions.

PowerCenter allows developers to extend the metadata stored in the repository by associating information with individual objects in the repository. There are two types of metadata extensions non-reusable and reusable. Non-reusable metadata extensions are unique to each object, and will not appear in other objects of the same type. Reusable metadata extensions will appear in every object of the same type. Typically, the repository administrator would create reusable metadata extensions.

Click on the Metadata Extensions tab. Click on the Add Metadata Extension button. Enter Author into the Extension Name column of the new entry. Select String for the Data type, and enter 30 for Precision. Add a second metadata extension and name it
Creation_Date.

Select String for the Data type, and enter 10 for Precision. Leave the Reusable checkbox unchecked. Enter your name in the Value field for Author. Enter the current date [using the syntax mm/dd/yyyy] in the Value field for Creation Date:

Click OK to save the source definition.

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Step 8. Save all work. Add the Repository toolbar to the PowerCenter client by selecting Tools | Customize. The Customize dialog box appears. Check the Repository checkbox on the Toolbars tab:

Click OK. The new toolbar appears at the top right of the Designer window:

Note that all work must be manually saved in the PowerCenter Designer. Additionally, work can only be saved in one folder at a time. The Save command will save the contents of the folder that is currently active in the workspace. While working in the PowerCenter Designer, save often to avoid losing any changes! PowerCenter does not automatically save changes in the case of failure (network, database, Repository Server, etc).

Save all work by selecting Repository | Save or by typing Ctrl-S. In the output windows Save tab, scroll up for a message confirming your work is saved.

Step 9. Clear the workspace. Right-click anywhere in the workspace and select Clear All. To view a source definition in the workspace, select the source definition in the Navigator window, then drag and drop it into the Workspace window.

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Exercise 2: Import a Target Schema

In this exercise, the student will import a target definition for the relational database table, ODS_EMPLOYEE. Step 1. Start the PowerCenter Designer. If the PowerCenter Designer application is not already running, select Start | Programs | Informatica Platform 9.0 | PowerCenter 9.0 - Client | Designer . Step 2. Open the Warehouse Designer. Select Tools | Warehouse Designer, or click the Warehouse
Designer

button in the toolbar.

Step 3. Import the structure of the ODS_EMPLOYEE table. Select Targets | Import from Database The Import Tables dialog box appears. Select the odbc_target ODBC data source connection from the pull-down list.
Recall that, in the previous exercise, the sdbu database login did NOT include a student number. But here, the tdbu login DOES include a student number. This is because all students share the same source data, but each student has their own TARGET schema.

Enter the database username and password: username: tdbuxx owner: TDBUxx (or DBO for MS SQL Server & Sybase) password: tdbuxx (xx is your assigned student number). Click on Connect. Expand the database owner name. Expand the TABLES node. Select the ODS_EMPLOYEE table:

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Click the OK button. The new target table definition now appears in the Warehouse Designer workspace:

Note that the EMPLOYEE target definition is also added to the Targets folder in the Navigator window:

Step 4. Save the target definition. Save all work by selecting Repository | Save or by typing Ctrl-S.

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