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What is the difference between source definition database and source qualifier?

  
Total Answers and Comments: 1 Last Update: September 24, 2007     Asked by: latha 
  
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September 24, 2007 13:26:52   #1  
vemurisasidhar Member Since: August 2007   Contribution: 10    

RE: What is the difference between source definition d...
a source definition database contain the datatypes that are used in the orginal database from which the source is extracted. where the source qualifier is used to convert the source definition datatypes to the informatica datatypes. which is easy to work with.
 
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