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DATA-SYNC Filters

Summary
Need information about the Load Strategy Filters
Content
I need information in regards to the Data Sync / Load Strategy/ Filters. How do the filters work. What function do they serve? Are there any details that can be altered in regards to these filters?
Also, is there anyway to see what is taking place when the rows are being staged / copied up to the cloud? Debug functions?
Version
Oracle Analytics Cloud Data Sync (2.5)
Answers
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FOUND WHAT i NEEDED
Load Strategies
A load strategy defines how your data is loaded from a specific data source into your target. When you choose a load strategy that incrementally loads the data, Data Sync requires you to define a user key to uniquely identify a record on the target side, and a DATE/TIMESTAMP based column which can be used to identify the incremental data. If an index is not available, then Data Sync prompts you to create an index.
An example load strategy
You have a table with CONTACT_ID as the unique identifier for any record, and a date column LAST_UPD whose value is updated to the current timestamp whenever a record is created or updated. Here, you would choose CONTACT_ID for user key and LAST_UPD column as the Filter.
When data is loaded for the first time, Data Sync issues a
SELECT * FROM CONTACT
statement. If the first load happened on January 1, 2014 at 10:00 AM, the subsequent load would issue the following SQL statement (Oracle syntax):SELECT * FROM CONTACT WHERE LAST_UPD > TO_DATE('01-01-2014 10:00', 'MM-DD-YYYY HH24:MI')
. The record set then compares the CONTACT_ID value to the data already existing in the Oracle Business Intelligence Cloud Service schema. Any record without a match is inserted. Any records with a match are updated. It is important that the source system contains an index for the incremental filter column.0