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two sources S1,S2 containing measures M1,M2,M3, 4 dimensions D1,D2,D3,D4, 1 Fact F1 containing measures M1,M2,M3 and surrogate keys K1,K2,K3,K4 (a) write a sql statement to populate Fact table F1 (b) Design a mapping in Informatica for loading of fact table F1.

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how does the server recongnise the source and target databases.Elaborate on this

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Difference between flat files and relational sources?

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how do u estimate the depth of the session scheduling queue? Where do u set the number of maximum concurrent sessions that Informatica can run at a given time?

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Do we need an etl tool?

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Hi Guys, my requirement is to load 1 yr data from oracle to teradata database through abinitio etl graph.i need to schedule this as a monthly job.but i want to load 12 month data for the first time and from second time it should load last (recent) month data and delete 13th month data. For example For the first time it should load 201208 to 201108 data, second time it should delete 201108 month data and load 201209 month data. I developed garph to load 12 month data ,but i don't know how to handle above requirement as am new to abinitio. i greatly appreciate you help.Thank You.

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Informatica server and client are in different machines. You run the session from the server manager by specifying the source and target databases. It displays error . You are confident that everything is correct. Then why it is displaying the error?

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What are the names of the layers in etl?

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Which transformation we use to convert 'NA' to 'Not Available'

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What is abap? What are idocs?

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can be used COM component in Informatica ?

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5. How many repositories can we create in Informatica? 6. What is surrogate key? 7. What is difference between Mapplet and reusable transformation? 8. What is aggregate awareness? 9. Explain reference cursor? 10. What are parallel querys and query hints? 11. DWH architecture? 12. What are cursors? 13. Advantages of de normalized data? 14. What is operational data source (ODS)? 15. What is meta data and system catalog? 16. What is factless fact schema? 17. What is confirmed dimension? 18. What is the capacity of power cube? 19. Difference between PowerPlay transformer and power play reports? 20. What is IQD file? 21. What is Cognos script editor? 22. What is difference macros and prompts? 23. What is power play plug in? 24. Which kind of index is preferred in DWH? 25. What is hash partition? 26. What is DTM session? 27. How can you define a transformation? What are different types of transformations in Informatica? 28. What is mapplet? 29. What is query panel? 30. What is a look up function? What is default transformation for the look up function? 31. What is difference between a connected look up and unconnected look up? 32. What is staging area? 33. What is data merging, data cleansing and sampling? 34. What is up date strategy and what are th options for update strategy? 35. OLAP architecture? 36. What is subject area? 37. Why do we use DSS database for OLAP tools?

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What is tracing level? How many types of transformations supported by sorted input?

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Explain the use lookup tables and Aggregate tables?

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