Chapter 10. Developing Real-time Jobs

The recipes and topics that will be discussed in this chapter are as follows:

  • Working with nested structures
  • The XML_Map transform
  • The Hierarchy_Flattening transform
  • Configuring Access Server
  • Creating real-time jobs

Introduction

In all previous chapters, we have worked with batch-type job objects in Data Services. As we already know, a batch job in Data Services helps to organize ETL processes so that they can be started on demand or scheduled to be executed at a specific time either once or regularly.

The main difference between a real-time job and batch job is the way these two job objects are executed by Data Services engine. The purpose of a real-time job is to process requests providing response. So, technically, ...

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