Please find that I removed the SORT stage from my earlier design.
Even in this way , we can preserve the sorted order by specifying a sort/merge collector on the Sequential File stage input link,right?
I know that's a lame question anyways... My apologies
There is no need of sort stage in front of the sequentail file.All it needs is specifying a sort/merge collector on the Sequential File stage input link.It will preserve the Sort.I tried this as well
I think it's a fine question. Considering that the Join stage requires sorted inputs, I don't think you would need a Sort stage following Join stage to begin with, unless you need to resort based on some other key.
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