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Null issue in look up

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:46 am
by prasadreddyk
I am getting a column from source which has a null value....and the same column is being used for look up....so how wud the look stage handle such a situation?the source which i am using is a flat file.

when I am doing lookup,the record which has null value for this coulmn gets rejeted...Is it always the case?

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:24 am
by ArndW
Null values tend not to come from sequential files, but you can specify your column metadata to get null values. I don't see why a lookup on a null column should be rejected, it is a valid lookup -- unless you have specified that the columns are not nullable in the source or the lookup.

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:27 am
by balajisr
Are you sure that the lookup stage is rejecting the records? Better if you can post the complete reject message.

Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 8:26 am
by ds_sai
hi,
Look upstage will not reject any rows(even null values also),please check whether you specified the meta data correctly or not.

Cheers
ds_sai