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Published inOct 2013
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Rick Barton
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Rick Barton

Rick Barton is a freelance consultant who has specialized in data integration and ETL for the last 13 years as part of an IT career spanning over 25 years. After gaining a degree in Computer Systems from Cardiff University, he began his career as a firmware programmer before moving into Mainframe data processing and then into ETL tools in 1999. He has provided technical consultancy to some of the UKs largest companies, including banks and telecommunications companies, and was a founding partner of a Big Data integration consultancy. Four years ago he moved back into freelance development and has been working almost exclusively with Talend Open Studio and Talend Integration Suite, on multiple projects, of various sizes, in UK. It is on these projects that he has learned many of the lessons that can be found in this, his first book.
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Understanding tContextLoad


The tContextLoad method as described in the recipe Using tContextLoad to load contexts in Chapter 6, Managing Context Variables.

Pros

tContextLoad is more fine-grained than the other methods described previously, which means that context values could be set up for individual jobs within a project.

As with the implicit context load, use of external files is good practice for managing contexts, because they are less likely to be overwritten during deployment.

Cons

tContextLoad suffers from the same failings as implicit context load; that is, the context variable checks are against all variables or none of them. The fine grain can also be a weakness, because this method does allow much more freedom to developers and could become unmanageable.

Conclusion

The tContextLoad method provides a more fine-grained approach to contexts, giving choice to the developer as to which files and which variables within the files are required for a particular task.

Unfortunately, it does suffer from not being able to check context variables individually, which is a liability; however, if this is not so important, it does mean only a small amount of additional coding is required per job to give you the fine grain context loading.

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Published in: Oct 2013Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781782167266

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Rick Barton

Rick Barton is a freelance consultant who has specialized in data integration and ETL for the last 13 years as part of an IT career spanning over 25 years. After gaining a degree in Computer Systems from Cardiff University, he began his career as a firmware programmer before moving into Mainframe data processing and then into ETL tools in 1999. He has provided technical consultancy to some of the UKs largest companies, including banks and telecommunications companies, and was a founding partner of a Big Data integration consultancy. Four years ago he moved back into freelance development and has been working almost exclusively with Talend Open Studio and Talend Integration Suite, on multiple projects, of various sizes, in UK. It is on these projects that he has learned many of the lessons that can be found in this, his first book.
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