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Option 

Description 

Step name

Name of the step; This name has to be unique in a single transformation

Connection

Select a database connection for the lookup

SQL field name

Specify the field that contains the SQL to execute

Number of rows to return

Specify the number of records to return. 0 means, return all rows

Outer Join

- false: don't return rows where nothing is found  - true: at least return one source row, the rest is NULL

Replace variables

In case you want to use variables in the SQL, e.g. ${table_name}, this option needs to be checked.

Query only on parameters change

If you your SQL statements do not change a lot, check this option to reduce the number of phisical physical database queries.

Template SQL

In PDI meta and data are separate so you have to specify the meta part in template SQL (field name and type).
I mean any statement that returns the same row structure.

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