Overview of Data Warehousing

What is Data Warehouse,

Why do we need it
Data Warehouse Architecture and its components
Define Star Schema - Fact and Dimensions
Junk Dimension
SCD Type1
SCD Type2
SCD Type 3
Understand OLTP and OLAP System
Different types of facts
Dimensional Tables
Fact less Fact Table
Confirmed Dimensions

IBM WebSphere
Datastage within the IBM Information Server architecture
Difference between Server Jobs and Parallel Jobs
Difference between Pipeline Parallelism and Partition Parallelism
Partition techniques (Round Robin, Random,Hash, Entire, Same, Modules,
Range, DB2, Auto)

Configuration File
Difference between SMP/PMP(Cluster) Architecture
Data stage components (Server components /Client components)

Designer

Introduction about Designer

Repository

Palette

Type of Links

File Stages

Sequential file

Dataset file

File set

Lookup file set

Difference between Sequential file/Dataset/File set

Overview of iWay, Classic federation and netezza

Database Stages

Dynamic RDBMS

Oracle Enterprise

ODBC Enterprise

Stored Procedure

Processing Stages

Change Capture

Compare Stage

Difference Stage

Aggregate Stage

Transformer Stage

Difference between basic transformer and transformer

Surrogate Generator Stage

Join Stage

Merge Stage

Lookup Stage

Difference between Join/Lookup/Merge

Difference between Join/Lookup

Remove Duplicates

Switch

Pivot

Modify

Funnel

Generic stage

Different types of sorting and sort stage.

Different types of combining and collecting techniques.

Filter

External filter

Difference between filter, External filter and switch stages.

SCD stage

Encode and decode stages

FTP stage

Adding job parameters to a job

Parameter set

Difference between partitioning and re partitioning

Run time column propagation

Schema files

Debugging Stage

Head

Tail

Pea

Row Generator

Column Generator

Sample

Data stage Director

Introduction to Data stage Director

Job Status View

View logs

Scheduling

Batches Creation

Cleaning resources using Administrator

unix
unix commands
Running jobs using unix commands
unix scripts which can be used in datastage
unix operations to manage datastage server
other unix commands useful in datastage