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Snap type:

Write

Description:

This Snap exports data from Teradata and directly loads it into Hadoop (HDFS).

This Snap does not support kerberized Hadoop environments.

You can drop your database with it, so be careful.

Valid JSON paths that are defined in the where clause for queries/statements will be substituted with values from an incoming document. Documents will be written to the error view if the document is missing a value to be substituted into the query/statement.

If a select query is executed, the query's results are merged into the incoming document and any existing keys will have their values overwritten. On the other hand, the original document is written if there are no results from the query.

Expected upstream Snaps: Any Snap that provides a document output view, such as Structure or a JSON Generator Snap.
Expected downstream Snaps: A Snap monitoring the exit code to check result status.
Expected input: None.
Expected output: A single document containing the console output and return status from the external Teradata application for each input document

Prerequisites:

Teradata Connector for Hadoop (v1.5.1). See Account for information on the necessary jar file.

Support and limitations:

Works in Ultra Pipelines.

Account:

This Snap uses account references created on the Accounts page of SnapLogic Manager to handle access to this endpoint. One additional jar must be added to the JDBC Driver jars on the Teradata account page - the teradata-connector jar from the Teradata Connector to Hadoop (TDCH) package. You can find it by installing the package on one system and looking in the usr/lib/tdch/1.5/lib directory. It would be safest to also use the terajdbc4.jar and tdgssconfig.jars in the same directory unless you have a specific need to use a different version of the jars. See Configuring Teradata Database Accounts for information on setting up this type of account.

Views:

Input

This Snap allows zero or one input views. If the input view is defined, then the where clause can substitute incoming values for a given expression

Output

This Snap has exactly one output view and produces documents in the view. The output fields of a single view are:

- OUT - The console output from the sub process
- OUTPUT SUMMARY - The count of the input, output and skipped records
- err - The console error output from the sub process
- TERADATA STATUS - The exit code of the sub process
- CLASSPATH- The classpath used by the sub process. This identifies the location of all jar files.
- ENVIRONMENT - The full environment variables seen by the sub process. This identifies the location of the Hadoop configuration files.

Error

This Snap has at most one error view and produces zero or more Document(s) in the view.
Only internal exceptions will be written to the error view. Subprocess failures (with a non-zero exit code) are written to the output view in order for the user to see the full console output an environment. It is important to check the status field in the output view.

Settings

Label

Required. 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.

SQL Statement

Required. SQL statement to execute on the Teradata server. Document value substitution will be performed on literals starting with $ (such as $people.name will be substituted with its value in the incoming document).

The Snap does not allow to inject SQL, such as select * from people where $columName = 'abc'.
Only values can be substituted since we use prepared statements for execution which result e.g. in select * from people where address = ?

Example: select * from people LIMIT 10 or select * from people where name = $people.name

Default value: [None]

Number of retries

Specify the maximum number of reconnection attempts that the Snap must perform, in case of connection failure or timeout.

Default Value: 0

Retry interval (seconds)

Enter in seconds the duration for which the Snap must wait between two reconnection attempts, until the number of retries is reached.

Default Value: 1

HDFS destination

Directory

Required. The HDFS directory where the output files will be written. This directory must not already exist.

Example: people

Default value: hdfs://<hostname>:<port>/

TDCH conversion properties

Separator

Required. Field separator in text file output. The available options are Comma, Tab, Pipe (I).

Default value: Comma

Number of mappers

The number of mappers to use to export table data from Teradata. The degree of parallelism for these TDCH jobs is defined by the number of mappers (a Snap configuration) used by the MapReduce job. The number of mappers also defines the number of files created in HDFS location.

More mappers leads to faster execution, however, the number of mappers is limited by the number of nodes in the cluster and the available bandwidth.

Default value: 2

Snap execution

Select one of the three modes in which the Snap executes. Available options are:

Validate & Execute: Performs limited execution of the Snap, and generates a data preview during Pipeline validation. Subsequently, performs full execution of the Snap (unlimited records) during Pipeline runtime.
Execute only: Performs full execution of the Snap during Pipeline execution without generating preview data.
Disabled: Disables the Snap and all Snaps that are downstream from it.

Example

In this example pipeline, the Teradata Export to HDFS Snap executes a SQL query and publishes the results to an HDFS directory.

The Teradata Export to HDFS Snap, selects the documents from the table ADW_SNAPL"."Channel" and publishes it to the HDFS destination directory path.

Successful execution of the pipeline displays the below output:

Snap Pack History

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Release	Snap Pack Version	Date	Type	Updates
November 2024	main29029	13 Nov 2024	Stable	Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.
August 2024	438patches29017	12 Nov 2024	Latest	Fixed an issue with the Teradata Snaps that caused errors because of invalid account credentials when the username or password included any of the following special characters: ) ( ! \ # $ % ^ & * " ' ? \| ; ~ -`
August 2024	main27765	21 Aug 2024	Stable	Upgraded the `org.json.json` library from v20090211 to v20240303, which is fully backward compatible.
May 2024	437patches26471	10 Jun 2024	Latest	The jOOQ library for Teradata Snap Pack is upgraded from v3.9.1 to v3.17.3. This upgrade will be part of the GA release on August 14, 2024 (Stable release). Pipelines using the Teradata Snaps are not impacted after the jOOQ upgrade.
May 2024	main26341	08 May 2024	Stable	Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.
February 2024	main25112	14 Feb 2024	Stable	Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.
November 2023	main23721	08 Nov 2023	Stable	Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.
August 2023	main22460	16 Aug 2023	Stable	The Teradata Execute Snap now includes a new Query type field. When Auto is selected, the Snap tries to determine the query type automatically.
May 2023	main21015	10 May 2023	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
February 2023	main19844	09 Feb 2023	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
November 2022	main18944	10 Nov 2022	Stable	The TPT Insert Snap now creates the target table only from the table metadata of the second input view when the following conditions are met: The Create table if not present checkbox is selected. The target table does not exist. The table metadata is provided in the second input view.
August 2022	main17386	11 Aug 2022	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.29 Patch	429patches16235	21 Jul 2022	Latest	Fixed an issue with Teradata Execute Snap where the Snap did not display valid error message when the delete condition is invalid.
4.29	main15993	14 May 2022	Stable	Enhanced the Teradata FastExport Snap with Character Set dropdown list to support encoding of data when you export data from the Teradata Database.
4.28	main14627	12 Feb 2022	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.27	main12833	13 Nov 2021	Stable	Enhanced the Teradata Execute Snap to invoke stored procedures.
4.26	main11181	14 Aug 2021	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.25 Patch	425patches11008	04 Aug 2021	Latest	Improved the error messages for all the Snaps in the Teradata Snap Pack where the Snaps fail with a null pointer exception error when the account reference provided is invalid.
4.25	main9554	08 May 2021	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.24 Patch	424patches8799	05 Mar 2021	Latest	Enhanced the Teradata Execute Snap by adding a new field, Advanced options, which extends support with microsecond precision for TIMESTAMP data type. Fixed an issue in the TPT Load Snap where the Snap failed to load data into the table while creating an output. Fixed an issue with the TPT Load Snap wherein now a null value is loaded as null and empty string is loaded as empty string. This fix may cause existing pipelines to fail if empty string values are expected to be loaded as null. Following are the new configurations: `VARCHAR QuotedData= Optional` `VARCHAR OpenQuoteMark= \”` `VARCHAR NullColumns= Yes`
4.24	main8556	13 Feb 2021	Stable	Enhanced the Teradata Select Snap to return only the selected output fields or columns in the output schema (second output view) using the Fetch Output Fields In Schema check box. If the Output Fields field is empty all the columns are visible.
4.23	main7430	14 Nov 2020	Stable	Fixes the multi-line value issue and issue in the TPT Load Snap where the Snap writes null for both an empty string and null values in the input data. The fix for this issue was to add the following three lines in the script and wrap all the values in double quotes unless they are null while writing the input data into a temp CSV file. VARCHAR QuotedData = 'Optional', VARCHAR OpenQuoteMark = '\"' VARCHAR NullColumns = 'Yes' This fix may cause existing pipelines to fail if empty string values are expected to be loaded as null.
4.22	main6403	12 Sep 2020	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.21 Patch	421patches6272	27 Jul 2020	Latest	Fixed the issue where Snowflake SCD2 Snap generates two output documents despite no changes to Cause-historization fields with DATE, TIME and TIMESTAMP Snowflake data types, and with Ignore unchanged rows field selected.
4.21 Patch	421patches6144	20 Jul 2020	Latest	Fixed the following issues with DB Snaps: The connection thread waits indefinitely causing the subsequent connection requests to become unresponsive. Connection leaks occur during Pipeline execution.
4.21 Patch	MULTIPLE8841	19 May 2020	Latest	Fixed the connection issue in Database Snaps by detecting and closing open connections after the Snap execution ends.
4.21	snapsmrc542	09 May 2020	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.20	snapsmrc535	08 Feb 2020	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.19 Patch	db/teradata8414	13 Dec 2019	Latest	Fixed an issue with the TPT Update Snap wherein the Snap is unable to perform operations when: An expression is used in the Update condition property. Input data contain the character '?'.
4.19	snaprsmrc528	14 Nov 2019	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.18	snapsmrc523	10 Aug 2019	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.17	ALL7402	11 Jun 2019	Latest	Pushed automatic rebuild of the latest version of each Snap Pack to SnapLogic UAT and Elastic servers.
4.17	snapsmrc515	11 Jun 2019	Latest	Fixed an issue with the Teradata Execute Snap wherein the Snap would send the input document to the output view even if the Pass through field is not selected in the Snap configuration. With this fix, the Snap sends the input document to the output view, under the key original, only if you select the Pass through field. Added the Snap Execution field to all Standard-mode Snaps. In some Snaps, this field replaces the existing Execute during preview check box.
4.16	snapsmrc508	16 Feb 2019	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.15 Patch	db/teradata6338	05 Dec 2018	Latest	Replaced Max idle time and Idle connection test period properties with Max life time and Idle Timeout properties respectively, in the Account configuration. The new properties fix the connection release issues that were occurring due to default/restricted DB Account settings.
4.15	snapsmrc500	15 Dec 2018	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.14	snapsmrc490	11 Aug 2018	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.13	snapsmrc486	12 May 2018	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.12	snapsmrc480	17 Feb 2018	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.11	snapsmrc465	11 Nov 2017	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.10	snapsmrc414	12 Aug 2017	Stable	Added Auto commit property to the Select and Execute Snaps at the Snap level to support overriding of the Auto commit property at the Account level.
4.9.0 Patch	teradata3077	01 Jun 2017	Latest	Fixed an issue regarding connection not closed after login failure; Expose autocommit for "Select into" statement in PostgreSQL Execute Snap and Redshift Execute Snap
4.9	snapsmrc405	13 May 2017	Stable	Enhanced the Output view of the Snap with Order Summary field that displays the output values (added to the out, err, status, classpath and env fields of the single output view that display the subprocess only). Teradata Export to HDFS Snap supported with Dynamic account.
4.8	snapsmrc398	11 Feb 2017	Stable	Introduced the TPT Delete, Insert, Load, Upsert and Update Snaps in this release. Introduced Teradata Export to HDFS Snap in this release. Info tab added to accounts. Database accounts now invalidate connection pools if account properties are modified and login attempts fail.
4.7	snapsmrc382	23 Nov 2016	Stable	Introduced the Teradata FastLoad and Execute Snaps in this release. Migration impact: In Teradata FastExport, the values of the Data Format field have been standardized to be in all caps. Existing pipelines that use the values of Binary, Text, or Unformatted will fail unless the new value of BINARY, TEXT, or UNFORMAT are used.
4.6	snapsmrc362	13 Aug 2016	Stable	Snap Pack introduced in 4.6.0. This includes only Teradata extract functionality to move data out of Teradata database using the FastExport Utility. It does not include Snaps for load, select, insert, delete, execute or others at this time. It also does not utilize the Teradata Parallel Transporter to extract data.