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How to load data from excel to database using Informatica

Asked By: kotasr | Asked On: Dec 4th, 2007

Hi,i am just wondering if there is a direct way to load excel file into database using Informatica without having to convert excel to .Csv or XML format. Because we may have to load data from different excel worksheets.Thanks in advancesrini

Answered by: Manohara Devara on: Jul 3rd, 2012

Hi
Go to source and create required ports and send to Expression..there we need to converted the delimiter file or Comma separate file by using the ltrime and rtrime values...and send to target ....

Answered by: sravang on: Mar 20th, 2008

convert excel file to .csv and then csv to text file...then u can take the source as flatfile..



How to join the data of two tables which does not have common columns

Asked By: cvgopal123 | Asked On: Mar 17th, 2007

How to join the data of two tables which do not have common columni mean how to perform non equi join in Informaticaeg:just like getting data from emp and salgrade table of Oracle where sal is between losal and hisalthanksvenu

Answered by: jayapraveen on: Jun 22nd, 2012


by using Lookup transformation
LKP Logic

in Condition port Sal and sal>hisal with this Condition we can join two tables

Answered by: jayapraveen on: Jun 22nd, 2012

we can do it by taking lookup transformation
example you had taken is Emp table and sal grade table
LKP Logic:
in Condition port sal and sal>hisal
with this Condition we can join two tables and get the data

Star schema fact tables

Asked By: chandu.sarisa | Asked On: Feb 22nd, 2011

Is it possible that a star schema contains more than one fact tables? If yes, how?

Answered by: jayapraveen on: Jun 21st, 2012

yes we can logical fact in terms of obiee in star scema
and also with then help of Confirmed dimension we can have another fact in starschema

Answered by: Rajesh on: Aug 1st, 2011

NO

How can I use multiple filter transformations? How do I pass dropped rows to next filter transformation to check the conditions?

Asked By: ashok | Asked On: Sep 12th, 2007

Answered by: Rajarao marisa on: May 31st, 2012

Ok its not good work environment by using multiple filter t/r usage Any way by using multiple filter we can load rejected rows also SD-->SQ-->fltr(condition(true)(eg:deptno=10)---->loaded into one tar...

Answered by: srinuraj on: May 31st, 2010

You can use filter transformations to filter rows. Filter transformations passes rows to next transformation which rows met the condition. But it cannot pass rows which rows doesn't meet the condition...

Guidance

Asked By: prithvi.4140 | Asked On: May 7th, 2012

Hi all i have been etl Informatica developer for last few years.I am good at SQL and UNIX.I need some guidance for my career.I wanna learn bo or any other reporting tool along with etl.I wanna learn anything more which could help my career .I just some guidance from all of you.Please help. thank you prithvi

Answered by: Anil Borru on: May 28th, 2012

my suggestion is ETL tools having lot of demand in Market so better don't change path and try to learn Datastage or another ETL tools.

Performance tuning in Informatica

Asked By: ashok | Asked On: Aug 4th, 2006

What is performance tuning in Informatica? How it can be done?

Answered by: Raja Alluri on: May 13th, 2012

Looking at logs, we can identify which thread(Reader/ Writer/ Transformation) is taking time to process. Below are the options to improve performance: Mapping level changes--> 1. Move the filter T/f a...

Answered by: kaliprasad on: Sep 28th, 2006

optimizing the session performance is known as performance tuning.the session runs in the availabale load window for the informatica server.performance tuning can be achieved in so many ways.1.use the...

It advisory in the big fours

Asked By: Lacute | Asked On: May 7th, 2012

Hi all! I am a fresh graduate in nigeria, looking forward to working with one of the big fours soon as a member of the it advisory team, what it tools would you advice I get acquainted with while I work towards my recruitment, secondly, can someone please enlighten me on the areas of erp I need to take...

SQL stored procedures

Asked By: naveen.84k | Asked On: Aug 31st, 2010

How to call SQL stored procedures in Informatica?

Answered by: kotireddy on: Apr 28th, 2012

Using Store Procedure t/r call it

Half data on each run

Asked By: sushil010.adhikari | Asked On: Sep 27th, 2011

Through one session how we load half of data from flat file on 1st run of session and on 2nd run of the same session it load rest half of data to the same target ?

Answered by: Ankur Mishra on: Apr 26th, 2012

Create two session which points to the same mapping and parameterise the source qualifier query in a way that it picks first half record for the first session run and second half for the second sessio...

Cumulative sum using Java transformation

Asked By: shwetha7575 | Asked On: Apr 26th, 2012

How to find cumulative sum using Java transformation? consider the following employees data as source employee_id, salary 10, 1000 20, 2000 30, 3000 40, 5000 the target table data should look like as employee_id, salary, cumulative_sum 10, 1000, 1000 20, 2000, 3000 30, 3000, 6000 40, 5000, 11000 *****how...

Send flat file data to different targets

Asked By: jhotsna | Asked On: Feb 17th, 2011

How can we send the flat file data to different targets(which are also flat files) based on the name of flat file without adding extra columns?

Answered by: ETLKaps on: Apr 10th, 2012

For the FlatFiles, in source definition, there is a option to include file name as one of the output port. There is no need to add FileName in actual source file. Informatica will append it to every r...

Answered by: sridkaretl on: Oct 21st, 2011

first thing i would like to know is whether the different targets are of same database or not. If the target is from same database then you can use router transformation by importing the flat file into source either as de-limited or fixed width.

How to generate a file based on location.

Asked By: krish_ssirk | Asked On: Mar 26th, 2012

Hi, i have a requirement and I have created a mapping and I need to generate a single file based on location. ex: my server placed into us location and I will kick of my wf from uk so I need to create a uk file. col1 col2 location aaa bbb uk xyz ccc uk if I ran my wf from us location the...

How can you minimize the cache size for a joiner transformation?

Asked By: talk2dinesh | Asked On: Aug 25th, 2011

Q. How can you minimize the cache size for a joiner transformation? (a) make the smaller source the master source. (b) make the smaller source the detail source. (c) sort the master data prior to the joiner transformation. (d) sort the detail data prior to the joiner transformation.

Answered by: Munavar on: Mar 21st, 2012

A.Make the smaller source the master source.

Tracing levels

Asked By: gpadmanaban | Asked On: Jan 8th, 2011

What are the different tracing levels and how it is used?

Answered by: Kiran_U on: Feb 22nd, 2012

A Tracing level determines the amout of the information in the session log.or it store the information in session log. we have 4 types of Tracing levels 1.normal,2.verbose,3.verbose data,4.terse defa...

Incremental aggregator transformation

Asked By: gpadmanaban | Asked On: Jan 8th, 2011

If incremental aggregation option is checked in session properties will the new cache is created during every run?

Answered by: Thara Shri on: Feb 9th, 2012

Incremental aggregation creates a cache memory in the first run, in each successive runs, the cache is updated with new records( apart from the old records). Same cache but updated records. So you ha...

Subject area

Asked By: naresh.pedda | Asked On: Sep 13th, 2010

What is subject area?

Answered by: P.ChinaMastan Vali on: Feb 9th, 2012

May be 18 transformations are there in Informatica. They are source qualifier, sorter, filter, router, aggregator, expression, update strategy, store procedure, sequence generator, external procedure,...

Answered by: surendra on: Oct 11th, 2011

I think this is obiee question anyway , subject area is a presentation service equivalent to presentation catalog in bi server .

What is the difference between fact and measure?

Asked By: Vali | Asked On: Mar 26th, 2007

Answered by: Sim on: Feb 1st, 2012

Measures are calculations based on facts. A measure points to a fact (such as order amount) and specifies an aggregation function (such as average or sum).

Answered by: vizaik on: Mar 26th, 2007

the real meaning of fact is what are all the necessary information for a business.Ex: in a business, customer,item,order,invoices tells information.calculation of amt to be paid by the customer is the...

How to perform cummulative sum in mapping for eg,id amt1 102 203 30the output should beid amt1 102 303 60

Asked By: Irshad | Asked On: Oct 24th, 2007

Answered by: kmahidar on: Jan 30th, 2012

Create a variable port : v_cume_sal=v_cume_sal+amt
output port : o_cume_sal=v_cume_sal

Answered by: kmahidar on: Jan 30th, 2012

In Expression t/r
Create one variable Port v_cum_sal=v_cuma_sal+sal
output port o_cum_sal=v_cum_sal

Which transformation can perform the non equi join?

Asked By: shenoyprabhakar | Asked On: Jan 27th, 2010

Answered by: KRISHNAREDDY on: Jan 27th, 2012

BY USING LOOKUP T/R WE CAN JOIN NON EQUI JOINS

Answered by: latha.c on: Apr 19th, 2010

Non Equi Join is same as outer join in join transformation. So we can do by using the joiner in Informatica.

Can you implement SCD type1 1 and SCD type 2in the same mapping ?

Asked By: amk742 | Asked On: Apr 20th, 2011

Answered by: Rambabu on: Jan 17th, 2012

Yes we can do it

Answered by: Shravani on: Jan 13th, 2012

Yes we can.

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