What is FILLER command in Teradata?
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while using the mload of fastload if you don;t want to load
a particular filed in the datafile to the target then use
this filler command to achieve this
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Answer / kvsnr
For Srinu, i am posting my answer insted of girish for
SYNTAX for FILLER.
.LAYOUT FILE_IN; /* It is input file layout name */
.FIELD Emp_No * char(11); /* to load data in to Emp_no */
.FILLER Junk_chars * char(20); /* to skip the value for
the next 10 locations */
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Answer / yuvaevergreen
Adding to the above, filler command just accounts for the
input record layout and is not sent to the teradata.
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Answer / tdguy
Filler command is just used for input data format, but the
data is not sent to teradata. Used with Layout command in
Mload.
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Answer / subbareddy kake
For Surya...
Filler is not related to any phase.
We can use filler for skipping the few columns from the
source file to target table.we will write thefiller in sql
layout in the Mload script
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Answer / sivareddy
filler is nothing but avoid that column while exceution time
syn:.filler empno char(2).
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Answer / m.s
Can filler be used in Fastload and if it can be used to
filter tows coming from data file ?
That is, can I do the below fucntionality of multiload in
fastload ?
ex:
.apply dml_insert where filler = 'a'
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