Lab 1

Defining Sources & Targets

Lab at a Glance ..............................................................2

Objectives........................................................................2
Duration...........................................................................2
Exercises........................................................................3
Exercise 1: Import a Source Schema................................3
Exercise 2: Import a Target Schema.................................9

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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 Windo ws |
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 betw een an
ex panded folder and an open folder
ev en though they both appear the same in
the Nav igator w indow .

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.

Before Pow erCenter objects can be

added, deleted or modified, a folder must
be ex plic itly opened.

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Step 4. Open the Source Analyzer.

If the Source Analyzer is not already open, select
Source A nalyzer,

or click the Source A nalyzer

Tools |

button in

the toolbar.

The Workbook View allow s easy

nav igation among open folders.

The Source Analyzer window opens by default

maximized and with workbook tabs. If your setting are
different:

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 Pow erCenter source definition defines
the structure, or schema, of source data to
be read by the Pow erCenter Serv er. For a
relational source, this includes information
about each of the columns including key
designation, data ty pe, 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 passw ord 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 w as
entered.

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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 TA BLES 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 w ith a particular
column, highlight the column and enter a
description in the Description field.

Click

A pply .

Step 7. Create metadata extensions.

Pow erCenter allow s dev elopers to ex tend
the metadata stored in the repository by
associating information w ith indiv idual
objects in the repository .
There are tw o ty pes of metadata
ex tensions non-reusable and reusable.
Non-reusable metadata ex tensions are
unique to each object, and w ill not appear
in other objects of the same ty pe.
Reusable metadata ex tensions w ill appear
in ev ery object of the same ty pe.
Ty pically , the repository administrator
w ould create reusable metadata
ex tensions.

Click on the Metadata Extensions tab.

Click on the A dd 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 A uthor.

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 w ork must be manually sav ed

in the Pow erCenter Designer. Additionally ,
w ork can only be sav ed in one folder at a
time. The Sav e command will sav e the
contents of the folder that is currently
activ e in the w orkspace.

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.

While w orking in the Pow erCenter

Designer, sav e often to av oid losing any
changes! Pow erCenter does not
automatically sav e changes in the case of
failure (netw ork, database, Repository
Serv er, etc).

Step 9. Clear the workspace.

Right-click anywhere in the workspace and select Clear
A ll.
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 prev ious ex ercise, 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
ow n 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 TA BLES 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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