what is parallel drop?

hsahay · Post by **hsahay** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:36 pm

what is parallel drop? Could any explain?

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:55 pm

First thing that came to mind was cliff diving. Where have you heard this in an ETL context?

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Sat Apr 09, 2011 4:19 pm

Synchronized skydiving (or pool diving) also come to mind. I have not heard the term used in an ETL context. Is this an interview question?

eostic · Post by **eostic** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 6:15 am

Perhaps it is a new type of candy.

hsahay · Post by **hsahay** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 5:13 am

Hi

One of my team members was asked this question in an interview. She is no longer with us obviously.

I was wondering if it might refer to keeping or dropping fields in a parallel job ....something like this -

http://mike2.openmethodology.org/wiki/A ... ing_Fields

In any case, it's not that important. Thanks for your responses. You guys are funny

Now feel free to ignore....

hsahay · Post by **hsahay** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 11:54 am

Gentlemen ...I found this requirement in one of job advertisements on the internet....

Job Description: 5+ years of Datastage Administration & Development ExpExp with Datastage 7.5, 8.1Will be upgrading to 8.5 version Parallel Extender, Parallel drop, Information AnalyzerExp with Parallel Drop, Partitioning & performance tuningDS Administration
Will do DS Admin work primarily, Should be good with Parallel Drop.

So the question once again is - What in god's name is parallel drop ?

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 1:37 pm

God knows and google doesn't bring anything up relevant. I'm assuming it's one of those "lost in translation" job descriptions where bits get mistranslated along the way to HR. Call 'em up and apply for the job! Let us know what you find out.

samyamkrishna · Post by **samyamkrishna** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 11:43 pm

eostic wrote:Perhaps it is a new type of candy.

Ha ha ha