Cheat Sheet for Informatica Join and LookUp - Best practices & techniques

Joshy George | Jun 27, 2009 | Comments (2)

Cheat Sheet for INFA Join / LookUp

Cheat Sheet for Informatica Join and Look Up on performance tuning, best practices, techniques, Dynamic Cache, Persistent Cache,
Share Cache, CDC, sql override... For every scenario what to use and how to optimize, see the table here:

C Best Option A Second Best Option D Not Suggested

Feature Join LookUp - Connected LookUp – Unconnected
More records C D D
Get multiple records in a C D D
1-n LookUp or Join
Return Value in case of NULL Default or 0 NULL, No default allowed
no match [Can do this in expressions]
Static Cache N/A C Specifies data does not
C Specifies data does not change.
change
Dynamic Cache N/A DUnconnected is not
C Provides current / update lookup
connected to the pipeline to
from lookup source and also provides provide updates to the cache to
values associated for new, existing make it dynamic. You can still
and update. NOTE: This once selected access shared cache with same
cannot be reverted.
port structure.
Persistent Cache N/A C Indicates your intention to use this C Indicates your intention to
lookup later. Goes with Static or use this lookup later.
Dynamic Cache.
Share N/A CUnPersistent UnNamed Cache can be CBy default you can
same LookUpmultiple reused multiple times in same
times in same mapping /
session. mapping.
NOTE: You cannot share an unnamed
dynamic cache.
If two Lookup transformations share a static
cache, the Integration Service does not
allocate additional memory for shared
transformations in the same pipeline stage.
For shared transformations in different
pipeline stages, the Integration Service does
allocate additional memory.
Warning: Regardless of specified output
ports, you have to drag the outputs specified
to next transformation; else reload of cache
will happen which is not good.
Share N/A Persistent Named Cache can be
same LookUpmultiple C Persistent Named Cache can be
reused multiple times in
times in multiple reused multiple times in same multiple sessions
sessions
mapping. & across in multiple
mappings.
NOTE: You can share a named dynamic
cache.
If two Lookup transformations share a static
cache, the Integration Service does not
allocate additional memory for shared
transformations in the same pipeline stage.
For shared transformations in different
pipeline stages, the Integration Service does
allocate additional memory.
 Joshy George
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