Re: ETL stuff, informatica

Thanks Jim, can you please at least tell me how:

can I connect to repository as admin?

how can I see metadata?

what is maplet and what I can do with powercenter?

I really deeply appreciate your help

Jim Kennedy wrote:
> <soalvajavab1_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:1156477492.996805.301320_at_74g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...
> > Guys, I need your help for some stupid questions. We had an
> > informatica/ETL guy in our team and he just left the company without
> > notice for some reasons. I know Oracle and DBA stuff to some extend but
> > very newbie to ETL and informatica stuff we have.
> >
> > Can you direct me to:
> >
> > -- Informatica online help, forums, manuals?
> >
> > -- What is the main componets of informatica?
> >
> > -- Do you have any cheat sheet or snapshots as how I use informatica?
> >
> > --- How I basically start an informatca session?
> >
> > --- Can you give me one live example as how you really utilize
> > informatica in your organization?
> >
> > I really appreciate your help
> >
> Informatica is an ETL tool. If you go to informatica.com you can access the
> online support if you have an account. We use it to extract financial
> infomation out of SAP for our datawarehouse. There is online help within
> the application. I assume you have the client part installed on your
> desktop? There are many pieces to informatica and while it isn't rocket
> science to use it would be rather difficult to describe how exactly do a
> whole slew of things. They do have a 3 or 4 day class and will even do it
> on site.
> Jim
Received on Fri Aug 25 2006 - 08:33:31 CDT