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  • Error Handling

    How will you perform error handling in Informatica? What do you do with the bad files etc?

    shr_4

    • Oct 27th, 2010

    Go to session log file and see no. of affected rows, applied rows and rejected rows. According to that you can know if any error occured.  If any error occurs you can check why it occured and correct it accordingly.

  • What are Aggregate transformation?

    Aggregator transformation allows you to perform aggregate calculations, such as averages and sums.

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    Answered by: Praveen vasudev

    • Sep 12th, 2005


    Aggregator transform is m uch like the Group by clause in traditional SQL.

    this particular transform is a connected/active transform which can take the incoming data form the mapping pipeline and group them based on the group by ports specified and can caculated aggregate funtions like ( avg, sum, count, stddev....e.tc) for each of those groups.

    From a performanace perspective if your mapping has an AGGREGATOR transform use filters and sorters very early in the pipeline if there is any need for them.

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    sivakp

    • Mar 13th, 2011

    1. Aggrigator transformation allows to perform aggrigate calculation, such as SUM, MAX, MIN, FIRST, LAST2. Aggrigator transformation allows to perform aggrigate calculation of group.

    shr_4

    • Oct 27th, 2010

    To perform Group by calculations  we use Aggregator Transformation.It perform calculations similar to Expression Transformation.But difference  between both is that Aggregator Transform...