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DATA WAREHOUSING

Overview

A Data Warehouse is a storage area, which holds the complete data specific to the
organization so that efficient queries can be built on it for Analysis and Reporting
purpose.Data Warehouse is a subject-oriented database where data is associated to a
single organizational process, often called entity. A Data Warehouse is integrated with
various source databases, which provides enormous strategic implication for Business
Intelligence.The Data Warehouse on the other hand does not cater to real time
operational requirements of the enterprise. It is a storehouse of current and historical data
extracted from either internal or external data source(s).

Knowledge of Oracle is essential.

Prerequisites

Applications

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COURSE CONTENTS

Introduction to Data warehousing

What is RDBMS
Features of RDBMS
What is Data warehousing
Architecture of Data warehousing
Difference between RDBMS & DATA
WAREHOUSE DATABASES.
Definitions
ETL Process
Reporting
Types of Tables in D/W
Types of FACTS tables
Types of DIMENSION tables
Types of Schemas in D/W
What is Data Mart
Warehouse Approaches

INFORMATICA

Definitions
Informatica Tools
Informatica Architecture
Types of ports
Predefined functions

Types of Transformations:

Source Qualifier T/r

Expression T/r
Filter T/r
Router T/r
Joiner T/r
Union T/r
Rank T/r
Sorter T/r

Aggregator T/r
Connected Lookup T/r
Unconnected Lookup T/r
Connected Stored Procedure T/r
Unconnected Stored Procedure T/r
Normalizer T/r
Sql T/r
Transaction Control T/r
Xml T/r

Using Source Tables

Using Source Flat Files
SCD1 Mapping
SCD2 Mapping
SCD3 Mapping
Mapplets
Mapping Parameters
Mapping Variables
File List
Dynamic Connections
Session Variables
Parameter files

Workflow Tasks:

Start Task
Session Task
Event Wait Task
Event Raise Task
Email Task
Decision Task
Assignment Task
Control Task
Command Task
Timer Task

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Session Properties
Worklet
Types of Caches
Types of Partitions
Sequential Batch Processing
Parallel Batch Processing
ETL Testing
Performance Tuning
Optimization
Debugging
Backup Recovery
Installation steps

COGNOS

What is program Intelligence

What is Business Intelligence
Types of olap engines
Cognos Architecture

Types of tools:

Framework Manager
Creation of project
Creation of data source
Relations among tables
Resolving infinity loop
Applying filters

Data scrubbing
Data Cleansing
Handaling null values
Creation of Dimension objects
Creation of Measure objects
Creation of Package

Query Studio:

Introduction
Simple reports
Filters
Sort
Summarize
Format Data
Calculate
Define Custom Groups
Drill down
Drill Up
Goto
Charts
Define Conditional Styles
Apply Styles
Set web page size
Set page breaks
Group
Pivot
Sections
Swap rows and columns
Collapse group
Expand group

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Report Studio:

Introduction
Simple reports
Query Calculations
Layout Calculations
Parameterized reports
Dynamic Headings in a report
Cascading reports
Reusability of a query
Master-Detail reports
2 Layouts with 2 Queries
2 Layouts with 1 Query
Grouped reports
Group filter reports
Page break reports
Applying sections
Removing sections
Calling one report from another report
Data format reports
Group Section reports
Creating headers
Merging data cells
Cross tab reports
Date Range prompt
Value prompt
Inline prompts
Repeater Table reports
Charts
Dash board reports

Analysis Studio:
Introduction
Summary reports
Ranks

Event Studio:
Introduction
Scheduling reports

DATA STAGE

Server Jobs and Parallel Jobs difference

Parallel
Pipeline Parallelism
Partition Parallelism
Partitioning and Collecting
Configuration file
Fastname, Pools, Resource Disk, Resource
Scratch Disk
Running Job with different nodes
Symmetric Multi Processing
Massively Parallel Processing
Partition techniques
Round Robin
Random
Hash
Entire
Same
Modulus
Range
DB2
Auto
Datastage components
Server components
Clients components
Datastage Server
Datastage Repository
Naming Standards of jobs
Document preparation
ETL specs preparation
Unit testcases preparation

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Datastage Administrator:

Server properties
Datastage project Administration
Editing projects and Adding projects
Deleting projects
Cleansing up project files
Upgrade licences
Auto purging
Permissions to users
Runtime Column Propagation
Enable Remote Execution of Parallel jobs
Add checkpoints for sequencer
Project protect
.APT Config file

Datastage Director:

Introduction to Datastage director

Datastage Director window
Jobs status view
Datastage director options
Running Datastage jobs
Validating a job
Running a job
Batch Running
Stopping a job and resetting job
Monitoring a job
Job scheduling
Unscheduling a job
Rescheduling a job
Deleting a job
Unlocking jobs
View Logfile
Clear log
Fatal error description
Warning description

Info description
Difference between Compile and Validate
Difference between Validate and Run

Datastage Designer:

Introduction to Datastage Designer

Importing table definitions
Importing flat file definitions
Managing the meta data environment
Dataset management
Deletion of Dataset
Routines
Importing jobs
Exporting jobs(Back up)
Configuration file view
Explanation of Menu Bar
Palette
Passive stages
Active stages
Database stages
Debug stages
File stages
Processing stages
Mutiple Instances
Runtime Column Propagation(RCP)
Job design overview
Designer work area
Annotations
Creating jobs,deleting jobs
Compiling jobs
Batch compiling
Aggregator stage ,Copy stage
Change Capture stage,Compress stage
Decode stage,Encode stage,Difference
stage
Filter stage,Funnel stage
Modify stage

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Join stage,Lookup stages
Difference between join and Lookup
stages
Merge stage
Difference between Lookup and Merge
stages
Remove duplicate stage
Sort stage,Pivot stage
Surrogate key stage, switch stage
Types of Lookups
Types of Transformer stages
Basic transformer stage
Transformer stage
Null handling in Transformer stage
If Then Else in Transformer
Stage variables
Constraints
Derivations
Peek stage, Head stage, Tail stage
Job properties
Local variables
Functions in Transformers
String,Date,Null handling functions
All properties in all stages
Slowly changing Dimensions (SCD)
SCD Type-1
SCD Type-2
SCD Type-3
Implementation of SCD T ype-1 in
Datastage
Implementation of SCD T ype-2 in
Datastage

JOB SEQUENCER:

Arrange job activities in Sequencer

Triggers in Sequencer
Reset method
Recoverability
Notification Activity
Terminator Activity
Wait for file Activity
Start Look Activity
Execute Command Activity
Sequencer

CONTAINERS:

Reusability
Minimizing complexity
Local container
Shared container
Some jobs in container