Creating a key using database sequence in the transformer

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SUMAN CHILUVURI
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Creating a key using database sequence in the transformer

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I need to use the database sequence to generate keys in a transformer stage and send it to target database stage DB2.

Can any one help me how to achieve this?
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Do you mean for each input record,the database sequence.nextval should be processed?
i guess the efficient way is using surrogate key generator stAge.
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Read the documentation on the NextSurrogateKey() transformer function.
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Refer page no 195 in the parallel job developer guide
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