In this recipe, we will lay the steps for how to transfer data from one Teradata Database to another.
This scenario is very common when you have a production database and you need to transfer pieces of rows to your development or testing box. We will use two separate Teradata boxes and copy tables from one to another using the Teradara parallel transporter, the TPT utility.
The Teradara parallel transporter (TPT) utility has the following features:
- Extracts data
- Loads data
- Updates data
TPT can be invoked via SQL like scripting, by using an API, or with a GUI interface known as TPT wizard. In this recipe, we will use TPT wizard. It is part of the standard Teradata Tools and Utility package, ...
