SAP Data Services 4.x Cookbook

Delve into the SAP Data Services environment to efficiently prepare, implement, and develop ETL processes

About This Book

• Install and configure the SAP Data Services environment
• Develop ETL techniques in the Data Services environment
• Implement real-life examples of Data Services uses through step-by-step instructions to perform specific ETL development tasks

Who This Book Is For

This book is for IT technical engineers who want to get familiar with the EIM solutions provided by SAP for ETL development and data quality management. The book requires familiarity with basic programming concepts and basic knowledge of the SQL language.

What You Will Learn

• Install, configure, and administer the SAP Data Services components
• Run through the ETL design basics
• Maximize the performance of your ETL with the advanced patterns in Data Services
• Extract methods from various databases and systems
• Get familiar with the transformation methods available in SAP Data Services
• Load methods into various databases and systems
• Code with the Data Services scripting language
• Validate and cleanse your data, applying the Data quality methods of the Information Steward

In Detail

Want to cost effectively deliver trusted information to all of your crucial business functions? SAP Data Services delivers one enterprise-class solution for data integration, data quality, data profiling, and text data processing. It boosts productivity with a single solution for data quality and data integration. SAP Data Services also enables you to move, improve, govern, and unlock big data.

This book will lead you through the SAP Data Services environment to efficiently develop ETL processes. To begin with, you'll learn to install, configure, and prepare the ETL development environment. You will get familiarized with the concepts of developing ETL processes with SAP Data Services. Starting from smallest unit of work- the data flow, the chapters will lead you to the highest organizational unit―the Data Services job, revealing the advanced techniques of ETL design.

You will learn to import XML files by creating and implementing real-time jobs. It will then guide you through the ETL development patterns that enable the most effective performance when extracting, transforming, and loading data. You will also find out how to create validation functions and transforms.

Finally, the book will show you the benefits of data quality management with the help of another SAP solution―Information Steward.

Style and approach

This book is an easy-to-follow guide with step-by-step instructions to perform specific ETL development tasks.

深入探索SAP Data Services環境，以高效地準備、實施和開發ETL流程。

關於本書
- 安裝和配置SAP Data Services環境
- 在Data Services環境中開發ETL技術
- 通過逐步指示執行特定ETL開發任務，實現Data Services使用的實際案例

本書適合對SAP提供的ETL開發和數據質量管理的EIM解決方案感興趣的IT技術工程師。閱讀本書需要對基本編程概念和SQL語言有基本的了解。

你將學到什麼
- 安裝、配置和管理SAP Data Services組件
- 瞭解ETL設計基礎知識
- 通過Data Services中的高級模式最大化ETL的性能
- 從各種數據庫和系統中提取數據方法
- 熟悉SAP Data Services中可用的轉換方法
- 將數據方法加載到各種數據庫和系統中
- 使用Data Services腳本語言編寫代碼
- 使用Information Steward的數據質量方法驗證和清理數據

詳細內容
想要以成本效益的方式向所有重要業務功能提供可信賴的信息嗎？SAP Data Services提供了一個企業級的解決方案，用於數據集成、數據質量、數據分析和文本數據處理。它通過一個解決方案提高生產力，用於數據質量和數據集成。SAP Data Services還可以幫助您移動、改進、管理和解鎖大數據。

本書將引導您通過SAP Data Services環境，高效地開發ETL流程。首先，您將學習安裝、配置和準備ETL開發環境。您將熟悉使用SAP Data Services開發ETL流程的概念。從最小的工作單元-數據流開始，本書將引導您到最高的組織單元-Data Services作業，揭示ETL設計的高級技術。

您將學習通過創建和實施實時作業來導入XML文件。然後，本書將指導您使用最有效的性能提取、轉換和加載數據的ETL開發模式。您還將了解如何創建驗證函數和轉換。

最後，本書將展示如何通過另一個SAP解決方案-Information Steward來實現數據質量管理的好處。

風格和方法
本書是一本易於遵循的指南，提供逐步指示以執行特定的ETL開發任務。