Before I started using a Mac as my main computer, I would often find myself using Microsoft Access to do some data analysis for a one-off project. Now that I’m using a Mac, I needed to find a tool to do what I used to do with Microsoft Access. In my search I came across SQLite. SQLite is an excellent lightweight database that is extremely fast and a great tool for a data analyst....
If you are a business objects universe designer that needs to implement row level security in your universe, here is a simple method. The following are the steps necessary when using the business objects information design tool. Similar steps can be done in the legacy universe designer tool. Create security table The first step is to create a security table and add it to your universe data foundation. The security table has 2 fields:...
A question that I often receive is: “What should I do to learn how to develop ETL mappings using Informatica PowerCenter?” Here are the steps that I would take to learn how to do extract, transform, and load with Informatica PowerCenter. I assume that you already have knowledge of SQL. If you don’t know SQL or need to learn more about SQL, I would recommend that you buy Learning SQL by Alan Beaulieu....
There are situations where you need to keep a source and target in sync. One method to do this is to truncate and reload. However this method is not that efficient for a table with millions of rows of data. You really only want to: insert rows from the source that don’t exist in the target update rows that have changed delete rows from the target that no longer exist in the source Can you do this efficiently in a single informatica mapping?...
If you need to denormalize or flatten PeopleSoft summer trees (trees with leaves) in your data warehouse, here is an ETL process for you to follow. Typical PeopleSoft summer tree structure SQL to flatten the PeopleSoft summer tree Substitute TREE_NAME with the name(s) of your summer tree(s) on line 54 below. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 SELECT SQ4....