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SAP Data Services 4.x Cookbook

By : Shomnikov
Book Image

SAP Data Services 4.x Cookbook

By: Shomnikov

Overview of this book

Want to cost effectively deliver trusted information to all of your crucial business functions? SAP Data Services delivers one enterprise-class solution for data integration, data quality, data profiling, and text data processing. It boosts productivity with a single solution for data quality and data integration. SAP Data Services also enables you to move, improve, govern, and unlock big data. This book will lead you through the SAP Data Services environment to efficiently develop ETL processes. To begin with, you’ll learn to install, configure, and prepare the ETL development environment. You will get familiarized with the concepts of developing ETL processes with SAP Data Services. Starting from smallest unit of work- the data flow, the chapters will lead you to the highest organizational unit—the Data Services job, revealing the advanced techniques of ETL design. You will learn to import XML files by creating and implementing real-time jobs. It will then guide you through the ETL development patterns that enable the most effective performance when extracting, transforming, and loading data. You will also find out how to create validation functions and transforms. Finally, the book will show you the benefits of data quality management with the help of another SAP solution—Information Steward.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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11. Working with SAP Applications
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Index

Projects and jobs – organizing ETL

Projects are a simple and great mechanism to group your ETL jobs together. They are also mandatory components of ETL code organization for various Data Services features, such as Auto Documentation and batch job configuration available in the Data Services Management Console.

Getting ready

There are no preparation steps. You have everything you need in your local repository that has already been created. In this recipe, we will use Job_DWH_DimGeography developed in Chapter 5, Workflow – Controlling Execution Order, to populate the DWH dimension tables DimSalesTerritory and DimGeography.

How to do it…

To create a project object in Data Services, follow these steps:

  1. Open the Local Object Library window and choose the Projects tab.
  2. Right-click in the empty space of the Projects tab and select New from the context menu. The Project – New window appears on the screen.
  3. Input the project name as DWH_Dimensions in the Project Name field.
  4. Open...