Can we use Lookup instead of Joiner to join 2 tables?
If yes which is faster and why?

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Can we use Lookup instead of Joiner to join 2 tables? If yes which is faster and why?..

Answer / zak

Yes, we can use Lookup to join 2 tables. Lookup performs
Left Outer Join by default.

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Can we use Lookup instead of Joiner to join 2 tables? If yes which is faster and why?..

Answer / sunil

Joiner is faster than lookup. because by default lookup writes order by clause on every column connected to that transformation which decreses the performance..so joiner is faster than lookup..

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