Chapter 2 Exporting Data from a Teradata Table and Writing it to a Flat File - Parallel Transporter

Teradata Parallel Transporter Quick Start Guide

Product
Parallel Transporter
Release Number
15.10
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-10-07
dita:id
B035-2501
lifecycle
previous
Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

This chapter describes the second most commonly used Teradata PT function: exporting data from a Teradata Table to a flat file.

The Teradata PT script you will run exports 10 rows of employee data from a Teradata table called SOURCE_EMP_TABLE, and writes the rows to a flat file called flatfile2.txt whose data will be delimited using a comma (‘,’) text delimiter.

Here are the contents of SOURCE_EMP_TABLE.

ID11 BILLY
ID12 JANIE
ID13 KRYSTAL
ID14 MATTHEW
ID15 LINDA
ID16 DAN
ID17 LAINE
ID18 MICHIKO
ID19 WILL
ID20 MONICA
Figure 2: Exporting Data from a Teradata Source Table and Writing it to a Flat File

Exporting data from a Teradata Source Table into a flat file entails performing the following three steps. Do them in the order in which they appear here.