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Problem with copy and join

Wassim
New Contributor

Hello,

I am working on this pipeline
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The problem is with this part
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I copy my result set.
I keep my first output
And aggregate my second output
And finally I want to take those aggregate results using a lookup.

This make my pipeline run endlessly. And if I remove the lookup (or join) and write to two different files it takes less than 2 minutes.
I think may be its because the two outputs are the image of the same result set.

Could you please tell me if you have seen this issue before and how to treat it.

Thank you

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ptaylor
Employee
Employee

Hi Wassim,

This is actually a known issue (SWAT-3096) that weโ€™re working on a fix for. It happens when there are at least 1024 records being copied by the Copy snap, for reasons that are a bit difficult to explain.

Until we have a fix, there are at least three workarounds:

  • Swap the order of the inputs to the Lookup snap, so that the output of the Aggregate is the first input rather than the second.
  • Insert a Sort snap right after each output of the Copy snap. It wonโ€™t work if you put the Sort before the Copy. In this workaround, the point of the Sort snaps isnโ€™t to sort the data, which might already be sorted โ€“ itโ€™s to essentially create independent buffers of the data from each of the Copy snapโ€™s output views.
  • Replace the Lookup with a Join, and set the Sorted streams property to Unsorted.

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viktor_n
Contributor II

Hi @Wassim,

Try first to sort the data before you send it to the join.

How many records did you get before coping the records ?
If itโ€™s only one, then instead of using Join snap try it with Gate snap. You will get same result as it is with Join. If there are more records and you are joining by some conditions then you can not use Gate.

Regards.

Wassim
New Contributor

Hi Viktor,

Thank you for the answer.
I have 6k rows so i cant use the gate.
I sorted on the same field i group with and it doesnt help.
image

Did you mean Join Snap when you referred to Lookup snap here ? Also what is the output from the Aggregate Snap and Mapper after that ?

Wassim
New Contributor

Hi skatpally thank you very much for the answer. its a lookup snap
image

Here is the aggregate
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and here is the mapper after the aggregate
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thank you