Saturday, November 17, 2007

NEXTVAL port of a Sequence Generator

Can the NEXTVAL port of a Sequence Generator transformation be connected to the PRIMARY KEY column of two different target table definitions in a mapping? Assume that the two definitions represent different physical tables on the database server.

Choose Answer

(A)
Yes, always.
(B)
Yes, but only if the two tables share a primary - foreign key (referential integrity) relationship.
(C)
No, because the Sequence Generator produces unique values (within the selected range) and this would result in a unique constraint error (duplicate key values) in one or both of the tables.
(D)
No, this is not allowed in the Mapping Designer.

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