Stages

A job consists of stages linked together which describe the flow of data from a data source to a data target (for example, a final data warehouse).

A stage usually has at least one data input or one data output. However, some stages can accept more than one data input, and output to more than one stage.

The different types of job have different stage types. The stages that are available in the Designer depend on the type of job that is currently open in the Designer.