what is lookup ?
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Answer / rekha
LOOK UP IS A PASSIVE TRANSFORMATION.
LOOK UP IS USED TO LOOK UP THE DATA IN RELATIONAL TABLES
FLAT FILES ,VIEWS OR SYNONYMS
LOOK UP IS USED TO 1 GET A RELATED VALUE
2 PERFORMING CALCULATIONS
3. UPDATING SLOWLY CHANGING DIMENSIONS
TYPES OF LOOK UP
CONNECTED
UNCONNECTED
CACHED/UNCACHED
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Answer / sai suresh
2 . Look up data in relational able, view, or synonym,
Input a look up definition from any relational data base to
which both the informatica client and server can connect.
You can use multiple lookup transformations in mapping.
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Answer / nagarjuna redd
Use to Lookup a data of table,view and synonym from a
relational or flat files. U can use multiple lookup
transformations in mapping.
- Used to get a related value
- used to perform a calculation
- mainly used in slowly changing dimension
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Answer / priya
look up transformation is used to look the data either from
source or target whenever the req feild is not in the
mapping.
we can use two or more tables as look up by using the join
condition
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Answer / kumarapillaietl@gmail.com
in before informatica powercenter 9 version lookup it is works passive tranformation ,after that 9X lookup works both passive and active ,
informatica provide aditional features, at the time of lookup creation (multi match) check bok option is there , when you check multi match its works active.
genraly we can get source table,target tables,flatfiles al lthous thinks and compare hetroginious sources using lookup.
lookup participate each SCD mappig flow.
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Answer / sai suresh
I think look up is a transformation it is mostly used for
slowly changed dimenctions(SCD). with the help of look up
T/R we can join to dimention tables. These tables may
Hetrogonies tables
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Answer / giri
Lookup connected,unconnected and Passive transformation. Looking for related values and inserting flake values.
Inserting Flag value
0 - No Change
1 - Insert
2 - Update
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