Nesting transformations and jobs

In the example developed in the previous section, you executed a transformation from a job. In the same way, you can execute a job from a job. The subjob, or inner job (that is, the job called by the main job), can also execute one or several subjobs or transformations, and so forth. To see a practical example of this, let's create a main job that loads the sample datamart by executing the different jobs and transformations that we have created so far.

First, let's create a job that loads all of the dimensions (with the exception of the TIME dimension, which is usually created once and never updated):

  1. Create a new job.
  2. Drag one START entry and two Transformation job entries to the work area, and link them ...

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