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what is the use and advantage of procedure in datastage?

  
Total Answers and Comments: 2 Last Update: November 13, 2009     Asked by: subharatanjena 
  
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June 21, 2007 21:52:06   #1  
Him121        

RE: what is the use and advantage of procedure in data...
To trigger Database operations at before or after DB stage access.
 
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November 13, 2009 06:59:59   #2  
hemant.agarwal03 Member Since: March 2007   Contribution: 17    

RE: what is the use and advantage of procedure in datastage?
If we have a complex business logic and we may need to create mutiple jobs to achive that then we use procedure in data stage which provide us final output in a single job. It is faster then normal SQL statement also.
 
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