i have a source which relational.I am trying to populate to
target flat file with one column for daily date which is
sysdate.
I want to populate the sysdate coulmn with DD/MM/YYYY
format.
kindly provide a solution for this..my clear that my target
is flat file.

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i have a source which relational.I am trying to populate to target flat file with one column for d..

Answer / aakansha

In expression write following if target field is defined
with DATE datatype:
TO_DATE(TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'DD/MM/YYYY'))

If target field defined with character datatype then use:
TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'DD/MM/YYYY')

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i have a source which relational.I am trying to populate to target flat file with one column for d..

Answer / prabhas

In expression transformation create one out put port, and
write like: TO_DATE('SYSDATE'.'DD/MM/YYYY').
Connect this port to target.

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i have a source which relational.I am trying to populate to target flat file with one column for d..

Answer / ramana

we need two pipelines in mapping.In first pipeline,take expression trans,create one port with date type and assign sysdate to it.After drag this port to target file.
In the second pipeline load the source record into target file.But here we need to select APPEND IF EXISTS option.Both pipelines we need to give same file name.

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