Teradata PT Publications - Parallel Transporter

Teradata Parallel Transporter Quick Start Guide

Product
Parallel Transporter
Release Number
16.20
Published
October 2018
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-10-10
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B035-2501
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Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

User documentation for Teradata PT is distributed among the following books.

Publication Contents
Teradata Parallel Transporter Application Programming Interface Programmer Guide (B035-2516) Provides information about the following:
  • Setting up the interface.
  • Coding.
  • Error reporting.
  • Checkpointing and restarting.
Teradata Parallel Transporter Operator Programmer Guide (B035-2435) Provides information on developing custom operators, including all interface functions that allow communication between the Teradata PT operators and the Teradata PT infrastructure.
Teradata Parallel Transporter Quick Start Guide (B035-2501) Provides getting-started information for using Teradata PT, including job examples for the following:
  • Reading data from a flat file and loading it into a Teradata Database target table.
  • Exporting data from a Teradata Database source table and writing it to a flat file.
  • Exporting data from a Teradata Database source table and loading it to a Teradata Database target table.
Teradata Parallel Transporter Reference (B035-2436) A reference book that defines the following:
  • Teradata PT command line utility commands.
  • Object definition statements that make up the declarative section of a Teradata PT job script.
  • The APPLY statement that makes up the executable section of a Teradata PT job script.
  • Syntax for each Teradata PT operator.
Teradata Parallel Transporter User Guide (B035-2445) Detailed strategies for planning, implementing, and debugging Teradata PT. The book includes information on the following:
  • Writing Teradata PT template job scripts, the kind of job scripts illustrated in the Teradata Parallel Transporter Quick Start Guide
  • Writing Teradata PT defined schema job scripts that:
    • Move data to and from data targets
    • Move data within the Teradata environment
  • Describing individual Teradata PT operators and access modules
  • Launching, managing, and troubleshooting a Teradata PT job