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Description

The Row Normaliser step normalizes data back from pivoted tables. For example, below is a sample table of product sales data:

Month	Product A	Product B	Product C
2003/01	10	5	17
2003/02	12	7	19
...	...	...	...

The Row Normaliser step converts the data into the format below
so that it is easier to update your fact table:

Month	Product	sales
2003/01	A	10
2003/01	B	5
2003/01	C	17
2003/02	A	12
2003/02	B	7
2003/02	C	19
...	...	...

Options

The following options are available for the Row Normaliser Step:

Option	Description
Step name	Name of the step; this name has to be unique in a single transformation.
Typefield	The name of the type field (product in the example above)
Fields table	A list of the fields you want to normalize; you must set the following properties for each selected field: Fieldname: Name of the fields to normalize (Product A ? C in the example). Type: Give a string to classify the field (A, B or C in our example). New field: You can give one or more fields where the new value should transferred to (sales in our example).
Get Fields	Click to retrieve a list of all fields coming in on the stream(s).

Normalizing multiple rows in a single step

The example below illustrates using the Row Normaliser step to normalize more than one row at a time starting with the following data format:

DATE	PR1_NR	PR_SL	PR2_NR	PR2_SL	PR3_NR	PR3_SL
20030101	5	100	10	250	4	150
...	...	...	...	...	...	...

You can convert the data to a table similar to the one shown below:

DATE	Type	Product Sales	Product Number
20030101	Product1	100	5
20030101	Product2	250	10
20030101	Product3	150	4
...	...	...	...

Below is the setup you use to create the table:

Metadata Injection Support

You can use the Metadata Injection supported fields with ETL Metadata Injection step to pass metadata to your transformation at runtime. The following Value fields of the Row Normaliser step support metadata injection:

Fieldname
Type
New Field