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Learning Informatica PowerCenter 9.x

By : Rahul Malewar
Book Image

Learning Informatica PowerCenter 9.x

By: Rahul Malewar

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Learning Informatica PowerCenter 9.x
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Types of lookup cache


A cache is the temporary memory that is created when you execute the process. Caches are created automatically when the process starts and is deleted automatically once the process is complete. The amount of cache memory is decided based on the property you define at the transformation level or session level. You usually set the property as the default, so it can increase the size of the cache as required. If the size required to cache the data is more than the cache size defined, the process fails with an overflow error. There are different types of caches available.

Building the cache – sequential or concurrent

You can define the session property to create the cache either sequentially or concurrently.

Sequential cache

When you choose to create the cache sequentially, Integration Service caches the data in a row-wise manner as the records enter the Lookup transformation. When the first record enters the Lookup transformation, the lookup cache gets created and stores the...