Job Example 6: Loading Data from Other Relational Databases - Parallel Transporter

Job Example 6: Loading Data from Other Relational Databases

Job Objective:

Read data from an ODBC-compliant relational databases such as Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, and so forth, and write it to Teradata Database tables.

Data Flow Diagram

Figure 30 shows a diagram of the job elements for Job Example 6.

Figure 30: Job Example PTS00012 -- Loading Data from Other Relational Databases

Sample Script

For the sample script that corresponds to this job, ee the following scripts in the sample/userguide directory:

PTS00012A: Loading Data from Other Relational Databases into an Empty Teradata Database Table.

PTS00012B: Scalable Loading of an ODBC Table into an Empty Teradata Database Table.

Rationale

The job uses:

ODBC operator because it is the only operator that can read data from ODBC-compliant external databases.

Load operator because it offers the best performance for high speed writing of a large number of rows into empty Teradata Database tables.