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what is the difference between routine and transform and function?

  
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November 07, 2006 07:13:20   
john daniel        

RE: what is the difference between routine and transfo...

Difference between Routiens and Transformer is that both are same to pronounce but Routines describes the Business logic and Transformer specifies that transform the data from one location to another by applying the changes by using transformation rules .


 
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April 18, 2007 05:39:09   
suganyasug        

RE: what is the difference between routine and transfo...
By using Routines we can return values but by transformers we cannot return values
 
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