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Question:  What are active transformation / Passive transformations?

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Answered by kiran on 2005-05-08 09:32:14: An active transformation can change the number of rows as output after a transformation, while a passive transformation does not change the number of rows and passes through the same number of rows that was given to it as input.


January 01, 2006 03:38:50 #3
 Sithu Database Expert  Member Since: December 2005    Total Comments: 161 

RE: What are active transformation / Passive transform...
 

Transformations can be active or passive. An active transformation can change the number of rows that pass through it, such as a Filter transformation that removes rows that do not meet the filter condition. A passive transformation does not change the number of rows that pass through it, such as an Expression transformation that performs a calculation on data and passes all rows through the transformation

Active transformations

 

Advanced External Procedure

Aggregator

Application Source Qualifier

Filter

Joiner

Normalizer

Rank

Router

Update Strategy

  

Passive transformation

 

Expression

External Procedure

Maplet- Input

Lookup

Sequence generator

XML Source Qualifier

Maplet - Output

 

Cheers,

Sithu

     

 

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