tPostgresPlusSCDELT – Docs for ESB 5.x

Component family

Databases/PostgresPlus

Function

tPostgresPlusSCDELT reflects and
tracks changes in a dedicated Oracle SCD table.

Purpose

tPostgresPlusSCDELT addresses
Slowly Changing Dimension needs through SQL queries (server-side
processing mode), and logs the changes into a dedicated PostgresPlus
SCD table.

Basic settings

Property type

Either Built-in or Repository.

Since version 5.6, both the Built-In mode and the Repository mode are
available in any of the Talend solutions.

Built-in: No property data stored
centrally. Enter properties manually.

Repository: Select the repository
file where Properties are stored. The fields that come after are
pre-filled in using the fetched data.

Use an existing connection

Select this check box and in the Component List click the
relevant connection component to reuse the connection details you already defined.

DB Version

List of database versions.

Host

The IP address of the database server.

Port

Listening port number of database server.

Database

Name of the database.

Schema

Exact name of the schema

Username and
Password

User authentication data for a dedicated database.

To enter the password, click the […] button next to the
password field, and then in the pop-up dialog box enter the password between double quotes
and click OK to save the settings.

Source table

Name of the input DB2 SCD table.

Table

Name of the table to be written. Note that only one table can be
written at a time

Action on table

Select to perform one of the following operations on the table
defined:

None: No action carried out on the
table.

Drop and create table: The table is
removed and created again

Create table: A new table gets
created.

Create table if not exists: A table
gets created if it does not exist.

Clear table: The table content is
deleted. You have the possibility to rollback the operation.

Truncate table: The table content
is deleted. You don not have the possibility to rollback the
operation.

Schema and Edit
schema

A schema is a row description. It defines the number of fields to be processed and passed on
to the next component. The schema is either Built-In or
stored remotely in the Repository.

Since version 5.6, both the Built-In mode and the Repository mode are
available in any of the Talend solutions.

Click Edit schema to make changes to the schema. If the
current schema is of the Repository type, three options are
available:

Built-in: The schema is created
and stored locally for this component only. Related topic: see
Talend Studio User
Guide.

Repository: The schema already
exists and is stored in the Repository, hence can be reused. Related
topic: see Talend Studio User
Guide.

Surrogate Key

Select the surrogate key column from the list.

Creation

Select the method to be used for the surrogate key
generation.

For more information regarding the creation methods, see SCD keys.

Source Keys

Select one or more columns to be used as keys, to ensure the
unicity of incoming data.

Use SCD Type 1 fields

Use type 1 if tracking changes is not necessary. SCD Type 1 should
be used for typos corrections for example. Select the columns of the
schema that will be checked for changes.

Use SCD Type 2 fields

Use type 2 if changes need to be tracked down. SCD Type 2 should
be used to trace updates for example. Select the columns of the
schema that will be checked for changes.

Start date: Adds a column to your
SCD schema to hold the start date value. You can select one of the
input schema columns as Start Date in the SCD table.

End Date: Adds a column to your SCD
schema to hold the end date value for the record. When the record is
currently active, the End Date column shows a null value, or you can
select Fixed Year value and fill it
in with a fictive year to avoid having a null value in the End Date
field.

Log Active Status: Adds a column to
your SCD schema to hold the true or
false status value. This column
helps to easily spot the active record.

Log versions: Adds a column to your
SCD schema to hold the version number of the record.

Advanced settings

Debug mode

Select this check box to display each step during processing
entries in a database.

tStatCatcher Statistics

Select this check box to collect log data at the component
level.

Dynamic settings

Click the [+] button to add a row in the table and fill
the Code field with a context variable to choose your
database connection dynamically from multiple connections planned in your Job. This feature
is useful when you need to access database tables having the same data structure but in
different databases, especially when you are working in an environment where you cannot
change your Job settings, for example, when your Job has to be deployed and executed
independent of Talend Studio.

The Dynamic settings table is available only when the
Use an existing connection check box is selected in the
Basic settings view. Once a dynamic parameter is
defined, the Component List box in the Basic settings view becomes unusable.

For more information on Dynamic settings and context
variables, see Talend Studio User Guide.

Global Variables

ERROR_MESSAGE: the error message generated by the
component when an error occurs. This is an After variable and it returns a string. This
variable functions only if the Die on error check box is
cleared, if the component has this check box.

A Flow variable functions during the execution of a component while an After variable
functions after the execution of the component.

To fill up a field or expression with a variable, press Ctrl +
Space to access the variable list and choose the variable to use from it.

For further information about variables, see Talend Studio
User Guide.

Usage

This component is used as an output component. It requires an
input component and Row main link as input.