Teradata Database 14.0 has a built-in function to format data as CSV for export.
With TD 13.10 and earlier versions, you can format the data yourself in the select statement, e.g.
select column1 || '|' || column2 || '|' || column3 from mytable
You can use CAST functions and FORMAT clauses to control how particular columns are formatted.
Send an email to Bob Hahn. He has developed an axsmod called pfast which allows you to easily do what you describe. It works great. We are using it with 13.10.
Robert.Hahn@Teradata.com
-Fred
Hi
You might also be interested in a tool we developed in house, which we have now opensourced which allows you to use BTEQ or FastExport to write directly to a csv file... as easy as:
dwhget --fexp Output.CSV 'select * from mydb.mytable'
https://github.com/xlfe/dwhwrapper
Any questions please let me know.
Please refrain from using the term "in house" when responding on this forum.
People might get the idea that it is a Teradata product, which it is not.
It is pretty clearly labelled as not being a teradata product, actually.
It is labeled when they go to the website.
I do not want people misled just by looking at the post.
But thanks for your constructive comments
Hi, folks,
I need to export a large data set from Teradata into CSV (pipe-delimited) files. A few tables are fairly large (600GB - 1TB). The tables all have a date column, which means I could use the date column to split them up into multiple files. But the export speed using ODBC/OLEDB connection is not great.
Does anyone have suggestions on what is the best way to do it? I am thinking TPT (Export operator)/Fexp. I'd appreciate it if someone could provide insight.
Btw, I prefer not to write OUTMOD modules to handle formatting.