Overriding the ORDER BY Clause

Posted by: informaticareference on: 03/31/2012

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By default, the Integration Service generates an ORDER BY clause for a cached
lookup. The ORDER BY clause contains all lookup ports. To increase performance, you
can suppress the default ORDER BY clause and enter an override ORDER BY with fewer
columns.

Note: If you use pushdown optimization, you cannot override the ORDER BY clause or
suppress the generated ORDER BY clause with a comment notation.

The Integration Service always generates an ORDER BY clause, even if you enter one
in the override. Place two dashes ��� after the ORDER BY override to suppress the
generated ORDER BY clause. For example, a Lookup transformation uses the following
lookup condition:

ITEM_ID = IN_ITEM_ID
PRICE <= IN_PRICE

The Lookup transformation includes three lookup ports used in the mapping, ITEM_ID,
ITEM_NAME, and PRICE. When you enter the ORDER BY clause, enter the columns in the
same order as the ports in the lookup condition. You must also enclose all database
reserved words in quotes. Enter the following lookup query in the lookup SQL
override:

SELECT ITEMS_DIM.ITEM_NAME, ITEMS_DIM.PRICE, ITEMS_DIM.ITEM_ID FROM ITEMS_DIM ORDER

BY ITEMS_DIM.ITEM_ID, ITEMS_DIM.PRICE �

To override the default ORDER BY clause for a relational lookup, complete the
following steps:

1. Generate the lookup query in the Lookup transformation.

2. Enter an ORDER BY clause that contains the condition ports in the same order
they appear in the Lookup condition.

3. Place two dashes ��� as a comment notation after the ORDER BY clause to suppress
the ORDER BY clause that the Integration Service generates.

If you override the lookup query with an ORDER BY clause without adding comment
notation, the lookup fails.

Note: Sybase has a 16 column ORDER BY limitation. If the Lookup transformation has
more than 16 lookup/output ports including the ports in the lookup condition,
override the ORDER BY clause or use multiple Lookup transformations to query the
lookup table.