Teradata Parallel Data Pump

Chapter 3: Teradata TPump Commands
INSERT
Temporal Semantics
Example 1
Example 2
the first nonfiller field of a record that is sent to Teradata Database to the first defined column
of the affected table, the second nonfiller field to the second column, and so on.
Teradata TPump converts INSERT statements into macro equivalents and, depending on the
packing specified, submits multiple statements on one request.
To insert records into the table identified by tname, the username specified in the LOGON
command must have the INSERT privilege for the table.
A value must be specified for every column, either explicitly or by default.
For Teradata TPump use, if the object of the INSERT statement is a view, it must not specify a
join. Teradata TPump operates only on single table statements so INSERT statements must
not contain any joins.
The correspondence between the fields of data records to be inserted into a table, and the
columns of the table, can be specified in any of four ways. These appear in the following
examples, using targetable as the table or view name.
The maximum number of INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements that can be referenced
in an IMPORT is 128. The 128th DML which would cause the insertion of the DML sequence
number of 128 for the DMLSEQ field in the error table could lead to Teradata Database 3520
error.
The maximum number of DML statements that can be packed into a request is 2430. The
default number of statements packed is 20.
ANSI/SQL DateTime Specifications
The ANSI/SQL DATE, TIME, TIMESTAMP, and INTERVAL DateTime data types can be used
in Teradata SQL CREATE TABLE statements. Specify the data types as column/field modifiers
in INSERT statements.
DML validtime qualifier and NONTEMPORAL semantics are supported. For more
information, see SQL Data Manipulation Language and SQL Data Manipulation Language
Advanced Topics.
.BEGIN LOAD SESSION number;
.LAYOUT Layoutname;
.TABLE Targetablename;
.DML LABEL DMLlabelname;
INSERT INTO Targetablename.*;
.IMPORT INFILE Infilename LAYOUT Layoutname APPLY DMLlabelname;
.END LOAD;
.LAYOUT lname;
.FIELD first 1 somedatatype;
.FIELD f2nd * anydatatype;
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