what is the main differences between Lookup, Join and Merge
stages?

Answer Posted / pavan

We go for a join stage than a lookup when the referntial
data in look up is more ie.,>=500MB.we have outer joins in
join stage but not in merge stage.we have only inner join
in merge stage.

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