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Is there a file download section for premium members in the site that I am not aware of?

or may be I should join DS xchange QA team!!

There is so much of knowledge to be gained from this site ... I wish I could read all those posts...but when I came across this error thought my resposibility to report the same.

Thanks criag I am using search with constraints only!

I think you have to use to_date(value,'format') for oracle.
Gurus please confirm.

I view a user's profile and do "find all posts by ray" .Then after the first page I am not able to navigate to any other pages.If I click next or jump to it goes to the same page displaying "No topics or posts met your search criteria". Appreciate if you resolve the same soon. Th...

thanks for your quick response.

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Hi while searching the forum about dynamic hashed files I came across ken bland's "Hash Files in DataStage" well written article in the old newsletter . Can some body tell me how can I access old technical articles in previous newletters?

Thnks a lot.Appreciate your quick responses.

I was searching about SCD types and the forum has lots of dicsussion about scd's. I came across different dimension types like conformed, degenrative (to name a few) . Can some body please explain the various dimension types.

Thanks Craig I would have never thought of it.Thanks dsguru for reply Constrained vs executed...ah now I am getting the difference.I . Can you please share how to constraint data flow in a job? If we can add to the list it will be useful for other newbies 1. @false in transformer 2. Job parameters a...

Thanks for response. Today I was able to identify the problem with my job using @false technique in transformer.I found it useful.So I want to know more such techniques of debugging server jobs. (like debugging job best practices).It will be helpful as i am a beginner with data stage. Also I was exp...

Sorry If I was not clear. I am trying to debug if the problem is with data base or data stage right, then in the transformer I use @flase constraint only to extract data and not further down the job. My question is how can i selectively disable few links (in passive stages) to identify bottle necks....

Hi all I am a data stage newbie .I have been going through the forum(It is very very helpful) and running sample jobs. I came across the @false constraint technique to identify bottlenecks.Are there any other methods of conditional link execution. Note: If I am not clear like in C we have #Ifdef and...