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Field Name

Field Type

Description

Label*

Default ValueSQL Server - Merge
Example: Load Employee Tables

String

Specify the name for the Snap. You can modify this to be more specific, especially if you have more than one of the same Snap in your pipeline.

Schema name

Default Value: N/A
Example: schema_demo

String/Expression

Specify the database schema name. In case it is not defined, then the suggestion for the Table Name will retrieve all tables names of all schemas. The property is suggestible and will retrieve available database schemas during suggest values.

The values can be passed using the pipeline parameters but not the upstream parameter.

Table name*

Default Value: N/A
Example: employees_table

String/Expression

Specify the table to execute the merge on.

The values can be passed using the pipeline parameters but not the upstream parameter.

Number of Retries

Default Value0
Example: 3

Integer/Expression

Specify the maximum number of attempts to be made to receive a response. The request is terminated if the attempts do not result in a response.

  • When you enable retry and a connection failure occurs that cannot be recovered by retry, the Snap writes a connection failure error in the error view. In some cases, the error view records might contain duplicate data that was written to the database. Ensure to verify all the records in the error file before you restart the merge request. You can locate the duplicate records in the error view by checking the $reason property for the sub-string: Connection is not available, request timed out.

  • Ensure that the local drive has sufficient free disk space to store the temporary local file.

Retry Interval (Seconds)

Default Value: 1
Example: 10

Integer/Expression

Specify the time interval between two successive retry requests. A retry happens only when the previous attempt resulted in an exception. 

When you enable retry and a connection failure occurs that cannot be recovered by retry, the Snap writes a connection failure error in the error view. In some cases, the error view records might contain duplicate data that was written to the database. Ensure to verify all the records in the error file before you restart the merge request. You can locate the duplicate records in the error view by checking the $reason property for the sub-string: Connection is not available, request timed out.

Merge condition*

Default Value: N/A
Example: SALARY =$SALARY

String/Expression

Specify the ON condition of the merge statement.  A boolean-type expression is expected. See Merge Syntax for an explanation of merge syntax.


Identity column

Default Value: N/A
Example: EmployeeID

String/Expression

Specify the table's identity column. If this is not set and the column is set to be generated always, then the merge will fail.

Enable identity insert

Default Value: Deselected

Checkbox

Select the check box to insert values from the input document into the target table identity column. Ensure that the target table contains an identity column. If you do not select the check box, then the Snap strips any value that is meant for the identity column from the input document.

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Default Value: Validate & Execute
Example: Execute only

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Examples

Merge data into a table

The following example pipeline demonstrates how to merge data into a specific table using the SQL Server Merge Snap.

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In this example, two documents with customer information from upstream Snap are passed to the downstream Snap.

Configure the JSON Generator Snap to pass customer-related data (input data) as shown below.

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Configure the SQL Server - Merge Snap as shown below. The customer data needs to be merged into a table called customer1. One of the documents has the data of existing customers with an updated 'phoneno' field and another document is of a new customer.

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Once the Merge Snap execution completes, the record with customername 'John' is updated with phoneno, and a new record is created for customer 'Shaun'. The output is as follows:

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