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Published inNov 2012
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Jonathan Bowen
Jonathan Bowen
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Jonathan Bowen

Jonathan Bowen is an E-commerce and Retail Systems Consultant and has worked in and around the retail industry for the past 20 years. His early career was in retail operations, then in the late 1990s he switched to the back office and has been integrating and implementing retail systems ever since. Since 2006, he has worked for one of the UKs largest e-commerce platform vendors as Head of Projects and, later, Head of Product Strategy. In that time he has worked on over 30 major e-commerce implementations. Outside of work, Jonathan, like many parents, has a busy schedule of sporting events, music lessons, and parties to take his kids to, and any downtime is often spent catching up with the latest tech news or trying to record electronic music in his home studio. You can get in touch with Jonathan at his website: www.learnintegration.com.
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Dynamic database lookup


What do we mean by dynamic database lookup? Let's explain with an example scenario.

Let's suppose we have an integration process that passes some information to us and that each time the data set that is returned is different. For example, the information passed to us might be a list of product IDs that have been sold today; tomorrow it will be the product IDs that will be sold tomorrow, and so on. This information is very useful, but a little hard to work with as it is only a list of product IDs. We might want to know other information about the products, such as the product name or the product price.

As we have seen in a previous example, we could extract all of the product data from our database and, using a tJoin or tMap component, match this data with the incoming product order data, and create a file that has the product information appended to the order information. Although this approach would work perfectly well, it might not be the most efficient approach...

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Jonathan Bowen

Jonathan Bowen is an E-commerce and Retail Systems Consultant and has worked in and around the retail industry for the past 20 years. His early career was in retail operations, then in the late 1990s he switched to the back office and has been integrating and implementing retail systems ever since. Since 2006, he has worked for one of the UKs largest e-commerce platform vendors as Head of Projects and, later, Head of Product Strategy. In that time he has worked on over 30 major e-commerce implementations. Outside of work, Jonathan, like many parents, has a busy schedule of sporting events, music lessons, and parties to take his kids to, and any downtime is often spent catching up with the latest tech news or trying to record electronic music in his home studio. You can get in touch with Jonathan at his website: www.learnintegration.com.
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