This chapter describes the most commonly used Teradata PT function: loading flat file data into a Teradata table.
The Teradata PT script you will run loads into the empty target table, called TARGET_EMP_TABLE, 10 rows of employee data from a flat file called flatfile1.txt whose data is delimited using the pipe (‘|’) text delimiter.
Here are the contents of flatfile1.txt.
ID01|JOHN ID02|PETER ID03|FRANK ID04|MARY ID05|ELLEN ID06|MICHAEL ID07|SAM ID08|JONATHAN ID09|MICHELLE ID10|ALICE
Reading Data from a Flat File and Loading it into an Empty Target Table
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Loading flat file data into a Target table entails performing the following three steps. Do them in the order in which they appear here.