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🌐 AB Initio Online Training

AB Initio is a powerful ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool widely used for data integration, data processing, and business analytics in large-scale enterprise environments. This training is designed to equip learners with hands-on expertise in developing, debugging, and optimizing data processing applications using the AB Initio platform.
Professionals skilled in AB Initio are in high demand across banking, telecom, and data warehousing domains, as organizations increasingly rely on data-driven decision-making.

Its Core Capabilities Include:

  • Graphical Development Environment (GDE):
    Learn to design, execute, and monitor ETL jobs using AB Initio’s intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
  • Data Integration & ETL Processes:
    Master the process of extracting, transforming, and loading data from various sources into data warehouses.
  • Parallelism & Performance Optimization:
    Implement multi-file systems and parallel processing for high-performance data handling.
  • Metadata Hub:
    Manage and govern metadata efficiently to ensure data quality and compliance.
  • Continuous Flows & Real-Time Processing:
    Learn to process streaming data in real time using AB Initio’s continuous flow components.
  • Error Handling & Debugging:
    Develop error-handling frameworks and debug complex ETL graphs effectively.
  • Integration with Big Data & Cloud:
    Understand AB Initio’s integration with Hadoop, Spark, and cloud data platforms.

📍 Bonus: Certification Tracks

  • AB Initio Developer Certification
  • AB Initio ETL Professional (Viswa Online Trainings)
  • Data Integration Specialist
  • Data Warehouse Developer

Ab Initio Training Course Syllabus

Unix Basics:
  • Unix Architecture
  • Unix basic commands
  • ls, cp, mv, rm, mkdir, rmdir, cat, find, sed, awk, grep, egrep, ps, top, head, tail, gzip, gunzip, chmod, vi editor commands, more, nohup
Data warehousing Basics
  • Overview of Data warehousing
  • Difference between OLTP & OLAP
  • Dimension table
  • Fact table
  • Star schemas
  • Snowflake schemas
  • Datamart
  • Galaxy Schemas
  • Confirmed dimension tables
  • Degenerate dimension tables
  • Junk dimension tables
  • Fact less fact tables
  • Slowly changing dimensions (SCD)
Ab Initio Basics
  • Overview of Ab Initio features
  • Ab Initio Architecture
  • Anatomy of a Job execution
  • GDE overview
  • GDE to Host profile creation
  • DML
  • About Datasets, Tables
  • Building and execution of the graph
Sort Components
  • Sort
  • Sort within groups
  • Partition by key and sort
Transform Components
  • Reformat
  • Join
  • Rollup
  • Scan
  • Normalize
  • Fuse
  • Scan with Rollup
  • Dedup Sorted
  • Filter by Expression
  • Multi Reformat
Basic concepts - Primary
  • Project structure
  • Sandbox structure
  • Sandbox parameters
  • Data directories creation
  • Abinitiorc file
  • Sandbox setup
  • Private projects
  • Public projects
  • Difference between Private and public projects
  • Check-in through GDE
  • Check-out through GDE
  • Check-in through command level
  • Check-out through command level
Basic concepts - Secondary
  • Multifils
  • Layout
  • Parallelism Techniques
  • Pipeline Parallelism
  • Component Parallelism
  • Data Parallelism
  • Phases and checkpoints
  • Rollback Recovery mechanism
Dataset Components
  • Input file
  • Output file
  • Intermediate file
  • Read excel
  • Write excel
  • Lookup Template
Database Components
  • Input Table
  • Output Table
  • Update Table
  • Run SQL
  • Truncate table
  • Join with DB
  • Call stored procedure
Lookups
  • Overview of Lookups
  • Static Lookups
  • Dynamic lookups
  • lookup() function
  • lookup_local() function
  • lookup_count() function
  • lookup_next() function
  • lookup_add() function
Partitioning Components
  • Partition by key
  • Partition by Round Robin
  • Partition by expression
  • Partition by percentages
  • Partition with load balance
  • Broadcast
DE partitioning Components
  • Gather
  • Interleave
  • Merge
  • Concatenate
Partitioning Scenarios

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Compress & FTP Components
  • Compress
  • Decompress
  • Deflate
  • Inflate
  • ftp from
  • ftp to
Validate Components
  • Validate
  • Check order
  • Generate records
  • Create data
  • Compute checksum
  • Compare checksum
  • Compare records
Functions

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Miscellaneous components
  • Replicate
  • Gather logs
  • Redefine format
  • Run program
Commands
  • Air commands
  • Tagging commands
SCD
  • SCD type-1 implementation
  • SCD type-2 implementation
Advanced Topics
  • User defined sandbox level parameters
  • Parameters Introduction and interpretation
  • Graph level parameters
  • Generic graphs
  • Psets
  • Plans
  • Conditional Components
  • Optimization Techniques
  • Metaprogramming
  • PDL
  • Debugging Techniques
  • End to End SDLC flow
  • DBC file creation and generalizing to various environments
Detailed Material will be provided

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Various assignments

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support throughout during the course.

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support post completion of the course

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Ab Initio Course Key Features

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Ab Initioi Online Training FAQ'S

What is AB Initio used for?

AB Initio is an ETL tool used for data extraction, transformation, and loading, as well as for building scalable and high-performance data processing applications.

 

What is a graph in AB Initio?
  • A graph is a visual representation of a data processing flow built using components that define data movement and transformation logic.

     

What is the difference between partition and de-partition in AB Initio?

Partition distributes data across multiple nodes for parallel processing, while de-partition combines data from multiple nodes into a single flow.

 

What is a sandbox in AB Initio?
  • A sandbox is a development workspace where graphs and scripts are created, tested, and debugged before moving to production.

     

What are some key components in AB Initio?
  • Key components include Input/Output tables, Transform, Join, Sort, Reformat, Rollup, and Partition components.

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