In Duplicates elimination which record is moved to output...

satish kanamarlapudi

Hi,

As per the below sort card i am eliminating duplicates and kindly let me know which record is picked while eliminating duplicates in a file.

Is it that only first record will be picked and moved to output file if there are many records with duplicates???.

Because in my case even though i am eliminating duplicates of 5,6CH,A bytes the rest of the records data vary and i have to pick only first row n in my case its picking 2nd row.

SORT FIELDS=(5,6,CH,A)
SUM FIELDS=NONE

Thx,
Satish

bipinpeter · Active User Joined: 18 Jun 2007 Posts: 214 Location: Pune

Hi satish,
As per my understan if you use EQUALS parameter along with SORT FIELDS the first record will go to your output file and second record tretaed as the duplicate.simply it will maintain the order.
I think default EQUALS parameter is enabled.If EQUALS is not in effect we cant say which record will go to output file.

Correct me if i am wrong

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 8:51 pm Post subject:

Yes, with EQUALS, the first record is kept. Without EQUALS, any record can be kept.

EQUALS is NOT the shipped default for DFSORT, although the site can change the installation default to EQUALS.

To use EQUALS, you can just specify: