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Overview

You can use this Snap to output a list of tables in a database. The Snap will connect to the database, read its metadata, and output a document for each table found in the database. The table names are output in a topological order so that tables with the fewest dependencies are output first. In other words, if table A has a foreign key reference to table B, then table B will be output before A. The ordering is intended to ease the process of replicating a group of tables from one database to another.

This Snap supports SQL Server 2008 or newer.

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• name -  The fully-qualified name of the table. To use the table name in another Snap, like a Select or Insert, you can pass it through a ForEach Snap to another pipeline with the Select or Insert.

• type - The type of table. This value is currently fixed to the string "TABLE".

• dependents - (If Compute table graph is selected) A list of table names that have references to this table, including this table.

Replicating a Subset of Tables

The output of the Table List Snap can be directly used to replicate an entire database.  However, if you are only interested in a subset of tables, you can use a Filter Snap to select the table names