LOOKUP Condition is nothing but a Join condition?
What type of join condition it,by default ?
Using the LookUP Condition How many types of relational
conditions we can make ?

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LOOKUP Condition is nothing but a Join condition? What type of join condition it,by default ? Usin..

Answer / vivek

as per my understanding.. lkp is always behave like left
outer join..it ll give you all matched records as well as
ummatched records which is not present in base table...and
those unmatched records is ll be null in case of
unconnected lkp trn.....

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LOOKUP Condition is nothing but a Join condition? What type of join condition it,by default ? Usin..

Answer / venkat

here lkp transformation is perform left outer join only.
it will display matching and non matching records,but in
case of non matching(while using conn lkp)records return
default value.while using unconn lkp returns null value.

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LOOKUP Condition is nothing but a Join condition? What type of join condition it,by default ? Usin..

Answer / krishna

lkp is passive tr beacuse it returns 0 when condition doesn't matches .
If multiple conditions match in lkp returns first & last values.
Lkp supports Equi & non-Equi joins.
By default it is left outer join.

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LOOKUP Condition is nothing but a Join condition? What type of join condition it,by default ? Usin..

Answer / krithi

Using the Lookup Condition , we can only compare values
between two columns. If the data matches it returns the
default value and NULL if the data doesn't match.

We can compare using the following operators :

1) =
2)!=
3)< or <=
4)> or >=

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LOOKUP Condition is nothing but a Join condition? What type of join condition it,by default ? Usin..

Answer / srinu

Hi Kalyan ,,Thanks,,
Lookup Trans is a Passive,
It wil return all source rows,Match or Unmatch,,,
Source column Checks with LookupCache column , wright ?
Return port may be Value or null.

Normaljoin wil Returns all Match rows only.
May be your Answer not Correct.

If any corrections 'srinu.srinuvas@gmail.com'

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LOOKUP Condition is nothing but a Join condition? What type of join condition it,by default ? Usin..

Answer / kalyan

Yes, Lookup Condition means is join COndition...By default,
it will give Normal joins..The different types of Join
conditions are =,!=,<,<=,>,>=

Please correct if I am wrong...

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