You can specify additional sort criteria in the Sorter transformation advanced properties. The Data Integration Service applies the properties to all sort key ports. The Sorter transformation properties also determine the system resources that the Data Integration Service allocates when it sorts data.
The following section describes the advanced properties for a Sorter transformation:
Case Sensitive
Determines whether the Data Integration Service considers case when sorting data. When you enable the Case Sensitive property, the Data Integration Service sorts uppercase characters higher than lowercase characters. The Developer tool sets the Case Sensitive by default.
Null Treated Low
Treats a null value as lower than any other value. Enable the property if you want the Data Integration Service to treat a null value as lower than any other value when it performs the sort operation.
Sorter Cache Size
Amount of memory that the Data Integration Service allocates at the start of the mapping run to perform the sort operation. The Data Integration Service passes all incoming data into the Sorter transformation before it performs the sort operation. Select Auto to have the Data Integration Service automatically calculate the memory requirements at run time. Enter a specific value in bytes when you tune the cache size. Default is Auto.
Work Directory
Directory where the Data Integration Service temporarily stores data if the amount of incoming data is greater than the Sorter cache size. After the Data Integration Service sorts data, it deletes the temporary files.
Enter multiple directories separated by semicolons to increase performance during cache partitioning. Cache partitioning creates a separate cache for each partition that processes the transformation.
Default is the TempDir system parameter. You can configure another system parameter or user-defined parameter in this field.
Tracing Level
Amount of detail that appears in the log for this transformation. You can choose terse, normal, verbose initialization, or verbose data. Default is normal.