How the informatica server sorts the string values in Rank
transformation?



How the informatica server sorts the string values in Rank transformation?..

Answer / swetha

When the informatica server runs in the ASCII data movement
mode it sorts session data using Binary sortorder. If yoU
configure the seeion to use a binary sort order, the
informatica server caluculates the binary value of each
string and returns the specified number of rows with the
higest binary values for the string.

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