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

Teradata Parallel Transporter User Guide

Product
Parallel Transporter
Release Number
16.10
Published
May 2017
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-05-09
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Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

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

The following diagram shows a diagram of the job elements for Job Example 6.

Job Example PTS00012 – Loading Data from Other Relational Databases

Sample Script

For the sample script that corresponds to this job, see 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.