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What is complex mapping in informatica

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What is complex mapping in informatica
posted May 6, 2015 by Sachin

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Complex mappings means not a map with more than 100 transformations used in.
Even 5 transformations used mapping also called complex enough.
It depends on business logic. If the requirement has too much business restrictions and constraints used to implement with informatica then it is complex.
Another thing, if the map looks complex to you, and it may not be complex to others.

answer May 7, 2015 by Manikandan J
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A mapping just take 10 seconds to run, it takes a source file and insert into target, but before that there is a Stored Procedure transformation which takes around 5 minutes to run and gives output ‘Y’ or ‘N’. If Y then continue feed or else stop the feed. (Hint: since SP transformation takes more time compared to the mapping, it shouldn’t run row wise).

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Suppose if we have duplicate records in a table temp_n. Now I want to pass unique values to t1 and duplicate values to t2 in single mapping? How can we achieve?

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I have some files that I would like to consolidate into a single database table. The files have similar but different formats. The files look something like this:

FileOne:
•ColA : string
•ColB : string
•ColC : string

FileTwo:
•ColAA : string
•ColBB : string
•ColCC : string

FileThree:
•Col01 : string
•Col02 : string
•Col03 : string

The destination table looks like this:

TableDestination:
•ColFirst : string
•ColSecond : string
•ColThird : string

I want to develop a mapping that ETLs these three files into this one database, but because the column names are different, it looks like I'll have to develop three different mappings, or three different sources, or three different somethings. The problem is that my example is contrived: I actually have many different files that all have different formats and column names, but the data is all very similar.

I would like to develop a single mapping or workflow that can handle all of this by only adding a table that holds the column mappings. Such a table would look like this based on the sample files and sample table above:

TableMappings:
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In this way, to edit a column mapping I only have to make an edit this this TableMappings table. I wouldn't have to make any changes at all to the mapping or workflow. Nor would I have to redeploy an application.

What would a mapping or workflow look like that could take advantage of something like this? I assume there'd be a flat file source that takes files from a folder. There would be something in the middle that uses this TableMappings table to map column names. Finally there would be a relational data object that represents my destination database table "TableDestination". I don't know how to put this together though.

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