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Column Naming Conventions

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:06 am
by laknar
one of the target database has column names as number.
will the datastage support the Column names as number.
i have checked already but need to load the data from file to Database using schema file.

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:20 am
by anbu
DataStage doesn't support number as column names. Column names should start with alphabet. But you can create alias to your column name and use that in DataStage.

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 10:38 am
by laknar
Ok, when we go for Schema File with RCP we cannot use derivations.
Just wanted to know is there any other method to load using Column names as numbers. Handling $ and # characters we can do.

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:24 am
by ray.wurlod
Not really. I guess you could create synonyms in the database. But DataStage can't deal with column names that are numeric.

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 1:11 pm
by laknar
Thanks Ray, I have renamed the Columns in Table and recreated.