Target update override - Informatica

When you used an update strategy transformation in the mapping or specified the
"Treat Source Rows As" option as update, informatica integration service updates
the row in the target table whenever there is match of primary key in the targe
t table found.
The update strategy works only
when there is primary key defined in the target definition.
When you want update the target table based on the primary key.
What if you want to update the target table by a matching column other than the
primary key? In this case the update strategy wont work. Informatica provides fe
ature, "Target Update Override", to update even on the columns that are not prim
ary key.
You can find the Target Update Override option in the target definition properti
es tab. The syntax of update statement to be specified in Target Update Override
is
UDATE TARGET_TABLE_NAME
SET TARGET_COLUMN1 = :TU.TARGET_PORT1,
[Additional update columns]
WHERE TARGET_COLUMN = :TU.TARGET_PORT
AND [Additional conditions]
Here TU means target update and used to specify the target ports.
Example: Consider the employees table as an example. In the employees table, the
primary key is employee_id. Let say we want to update the salary of the employe
es whose employee name is MARK. In this case we have to use the target update ov
erride. The update statement to be specified is
UPDATE EMPLOYEES
SET SALARY = :TU.SAL
WHERE EMPLOYEE_NAME = :TU.EMP_NAME