What is ETL Mapping Document ?

A Real Time Example

One of the regular viewer of this blog requested me to explain the important's of the ETL
mapping document.

What is ETL Mapping Document :
The ETL mapping document contains the source,target and
business rules information's, this document will be the most important document for the
ETL developer to design and develop the ETL jobs.

A typical mapping document should contain the
following information's

1) Mapping indicator(Values A:ADD, D:Delete,C:Change)
2) Change description (Used to indicate mapping changes)
3) Key Indicator( Indicates whether the field is Primary key or not)
4) Source Table/File Name
5) Source Field Name
6) Source Field Data Type
7) Source Field Length
8) Source Field Description(The description will be used as a meta data for end user)
9)Business Rule
10)Target Table Name
11) Target Field Name
12) Target Data Type
13) Target Field Length
14) Comment

You can add more fields based on your requirement.

Real Time Example:
Let's take a look at a real time example here, consider that we are getting a source file
called "Employee_info" which contains employee information's and it should get loaded
into the EMP_DIM table in target.

One of the business requirement is to convert Sales -->S,Packing-->P and Transport--
>T

Row id Emp First Name
Emp Last
Name
EMP No EMP Dep
1 John Beck 2001 Sales
2 Mike Morry 2002 Sales
3 Kevin Peter 2003 Packing
4 Steve Morry 2004 Packing
5 Jim Chen 2005 Transport


Here is how the mapping will look like



Once the mapping is prepared, it needs to be reviewed with end user and get the sign
off from the them.

Lets say that during the review they users want to add "E" before the EMP_NUM field in
target.
The mapping document should be changed first, here it's how it will look after the
change



As you can see in the image that the "Mapping Indicator" column got changed from A
to C and "Change description" contains change details.