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Some Tricks in Informatica

After a bit of gap, i am back here.So instead discussing about a specific topic, let me tell you about some tricks/tips that can be used while working in informatica

Worklet as we know is a set of reusable tasks.We cannot start a single task individually in worklet from workflow manager. we need to run the worklet in order the start the individual tasks assigned to it.Although after a run in completed from workflow monitor we can start tasks individually from monitor.

If a worklfow which has schedule assigned to it gets failed, then it gets unscheduled so we need to reschedule it again by doing right click in workflow manger and select schedule workflow.

If the following error appears while trying logging in informatica

 
Then try restarting services by doing the following steps go to run and type services.msc, there search
for informatica sever then right click select restart.
 
Joiner vs lookup - It is advisable to choose joiner transformation when there are large no of records in the source table as the performance will be better when compared to lookup.
 
Hope this article helps you in your informatica projects
 

 
 
 
 
 

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  1. Hey Admin, we dont have these kind of privileges..

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  2. Hi Ravi, What privileges are you talking about>

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