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Delta Mechanism for Generic Extractors

Posted by Anil Kumar Thalada in Data Warehousing on 23-Aug-2013 11:49:42
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How to enable Delta Mechanism for Generic Extractors

3 Types of Delta Mechanism for Generic Extraction
1. CALDAY 2. Time Stamp 3.Numaric Point
Delta Mechanism with CALDAY: I have a table VBAK VBELN, ERDAT,
AUDAT, NETWR
We can set up delta mechanism based on CALDAY (Data Source

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Capability) when we have changed Date filed in data source

AUDAT will give latest changed date

VBELN

ERDAT

AUDAT

NETWR

4965

01.01.2006

01.01.2006

5000

4966

02.01.2006

02.01.2006

1000

4967

05.02.2006

05.02.2006

15000

4968

06.07.2007

06.07.2007

20000

4965

01.01.2006

09.07.2007

9000

If we run Initialization Delta on 03.01.2006 It will Pick 4965 & 4966

If we run Delta on 05.02.2006 at night 12o clock it will Pick 4967 records
(previously loaded records date >& TILL 05.02.2006 date)
If we run Delta on 10.07.2007 It will Pick 4968 & 4965
Limitations of Delta Mechanism with CALDAY: Multiple Deltas cannot be run
on same day because it will not consider time factor. If the Delta Mechanism
set up with CALDAY we can run delta only once per day at the end of day
2. Delta Mechanism with Time Stamp: Since Delta is Time stamp; we can
run the delta number of times. If you setup Delta with Time Stamp we need to
have Time Stamp Field in the source (UPD_TMSTMP)
3.Delta Mechanism with Numeric Point: If we set the delta based on
numeric Point, it can only recognizes the newly added records but not the
modified records
Safety Interval: Lets assume your delta run on Sunday, Thursday and
Saturday. And you last run was on Sunday and next Run is on Thursday.
In this case if you have set the lower limit to 1, the delta run of Thursday will
fetch data from Saturday till Thursday.
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"Delta management can take the lower limit from the last extraction.
The lower limit for safety interval contains the value that needs to be taken
from the highest value of the previous extraction to obtain the lowest value of
the following extraction." E.g: You can say Lower limit = Highest value of last
extraction- safety interval.
Example: Lower Limit = 2, Upper Limit = 1
Example: Lower Limit = 0, Upper Limit = 0
Tips:
If delta field is Date (Record Create Date or change date), then use Upper
Limit of 1 day. This will load Delta in BI as of yesterday. Leave Lower limit
blank.
If delta field is Time Stamp, then use Upper Limit of equal to 1800 Seconds
(30 minutes). This will load Delta in BI as of 30 minutes old. Leave Lower limit
blank.
NOTE: Safety interval should be set so that no document is missed even if
it was not stored in the DB table when the extraction took place.
Select Delta type:
New status for changed records (I.e. after-image); this can be used with
Data target DSO (AIE).
Additive Delta (I.e. aggregated data records) (ADD); Compatible with Info
cube & DSO

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