Hi, I am new to Informatica, What is a flat file and how to
use flat file in infomratica please help me.
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Answer / rabikant thakur
Please ignore my first ans. i miss to write "not"
Here is currect ans:
Flat file like Notepad,MS-Word Flat file does not maintain
the referential integrity and property like RDBMS and
seprated with some delimeter like
comma and tab
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Answer / nagesh
Actually, as said we import data into informatica from
Relational Database sources as well as from Flat File
sources.
A Flat file is a Text file having the data in a different
manner than in the Table.
The data in a Flat file(can be MS Word Doc or Notepad or
any text doc) will be in the form of Fixed width or
Delimited.
Eg of Flatfile
Barak Obama,17,Washington DC,USA OR
01000ScrewDriver009.50{This is fixed
01001Hammer012.95 { width file
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Answer / coolboy
Flat file is a normal text file like msword,notepad etc.It
is of 2 types fixed width and delimited flat file.It is no
way related to RDBMS.
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Answer / raj
Flat file is a text file.give some data in note pad using
delimiter or fixed width. later import it into designer
from source analyzer sources-->import from file.
next declare the properties in session
file directory: give the path(c:\)
file name: emp.txt
under mapping tab for source.
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Answer / abhiram
"FLAT FILE IS A FILE HAVING DATA IN DIFFERENT FORMAT"
(OR)
"THE FILE WHICH CONTAINS PARTICULAR STRUCTURE"
TO EXTRACT FLATFILE JUST CLICK.
SOURCE ANALYZER-IMPORT FLAT FILE(i.e.,WE CAN EXTRACT
THE FAT FILE WHICH IS LOCATED IN LOCAL SOURCE DATABASE).
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Answer / rabikant thakur
Flat file like Notepad,MS-Word Flat file does maintain the
referential integrity and seprated with some delimeter like
comma and tab
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Answer / venkadesh
IT IS NOTHING BUT TEXT DOCUMENT SO WE TAKE AS SOURCE FILE.
AFTER THAT WE LOAD IN SOURCE TABLE. BY CLICKING SOURCE MENU
AND SELECT IMPORT FILE
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Answer / venkadesh
IT IS NOTHING BUT TEXT DOCUMENT SO WE TAKE AS SOURCE FILE.
AFTER THAT WE LOAD IN SOURCE TABLE. BY CLICKING SOURCE MENU
AND SELECT IMPORT FILE
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Answer / naresh
flat file is a file which is stored in our local system
which can be of the form .txt etc this should be of fixed
length
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