Hi. I need to be able to extract millions of rows from my database on a daily basis to a UNIX ftp server. Will Toad be able to do this?
Have you already installed a trial version of any Toad? What database do you use and what exactly do you mean by "extract"?
Hi, thanks for your reply. Yes, I have a trial version installed. By extract, I mean "unload to big_file.txt; select * from big_table" and I have an output of 30 millions rows. I'm basically unloading an entire database. I can do this in Toad (though I haven't tried with the entire table due to space concerns; in Brio this things takes like 3 hours to run) and write to my windows file system; I need to be sure I will be able to write to a UNIX server for our external stakeholders to ftp to their systems.
There’s two ways to FTP a result set from Toad Datapoint, although 30 million rows might be straining the client, depending on how beefy your workstation is...
Both of the following means requires you to save results on some drive reachable by TDP and FTP....e.g. a file created by TDP via export or Save-As, etc.
• Crack open the FTP Connections pane within TDP (Main menu View-> FTP Connections) and define your FTP sites there. In this way, Toad has built-in FTP that allows you to upload your files… see snap below.
• The Automation Designer in TDP has an FTP task. The nice thing about this is that you can schedule your FTP uploads and have them be hands-freely done on a regularly scheduled basis. See second snap below, where I have a simple two-step process that issues a SELECT query to bring back results from my Local Storage (or local drive) and then uploads to my desired FTP site.
