I am running into an issue where I have a set up a pipeline that gets a list of tables from Teradata using a Lookup activity and then passes those items to a ForEach activity that then copies the data in parallel and saves them as a gzipped file. The requirement is to essentially archive some tables that are no longer being used.
For this pipeline I am not using any partition options as most of the tables are small and I kept it to be flexible.
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COPY activity within ForEach activity
99% of the tables ran without issues and were copied as gz files into blob storage, but two tables in particular run for long time (apprx 4 to 6 hours) without any of the data being written into a blob storage account.
Note that the image above says "Cancelled", but that was done by me. Before that I had a run time as described above, but still no data being written. This is affecting only 2 tables.
I checked with our Teradata team and those tables are not being used by any one (hence its not locked). I also looked at "Teradata Viewpoint" (admin tool) and looked at the query monitor and saw that the query was running on Teradata without issues.
Any insight would be greatly apreciated.
Onlooking issue mention it look the data size of table is more than a blob can store ( As you are not using any partition options )
Use partition option for optimize performance and hold the data
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Just in case someone else comes across this, the way I solved this was to create a new data store connection called "TD_Prod_datasetname". The purpose of this dataset is to not point to a specific table, but to just accept a "item().TableName" value.
This datasource contains two main values. 1st is the #dataset().TeradataName
Dataset property
I only came up with that after doing a little bit of digging in Google.
I then created a parameter called "TeradataTable" as String.
I then updated my pipeline. As above the main two activities remain the same. I have a lookup and then a ForEach Activity (where for each will get the item values):
However, in the COPY command inside the ForEach activity I updated the source. Instead of getting "item().Name" I am passing through #item().TableName:
This then enabled me to then select the "Table" option and because I am using Table instead of query I can then use the "Hash" partition. I left it blank because according to Microsoft documentation it will automatically find the Primary Key that will be used for this.
The only issue that I ran into when using this was that if you run into a table that does not have a Primary Key then this item will fail and will need to be run through either a different process or manually outside of this job.
Because of this change the previously files that just hung there and did not copy now copied successfully into our blob storage account.
Hope this helps someone else that wants to see how to create parallel copies using Teradata as a source and pass through multiple table values.
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Using Synapse pipelines and mapping data flow to process multiple daily files residing in ADLS which represent incremental inserts and updates for any given primary key column. Each daily physical file has ONLY one instance for any given primary key value. Keys/rows are unique within a daily file, but the same key value can exist in multiple files for each day where attributes related to that key column changed over time. All rows flow to the Upsert condition as shown in screen shot.
Sink is a Synapse table where primary keys can only be specified with non-enforced primary key syntax which can be seen below.
Best practice with mapping data flows is avoid placing mapping data flow within a foreach activity to process each file individually as this spins up a new cluster for each file which takes forever and gets expensive. Instead, I have configured the mapping data flow source to use wildcard path to process all files at once with a sort by file name to ensure they are ordered correctly within a single data flow (avoiding the foreach activity for each file).
Under this configuration, a single data flow looking at multiple daily files can definitely expect the same key column to exist on multiple rows. When the empty target table is first loaded from all the daily files, we get multiple rows showing up for any single key column value instead of a single INSERT for the first one and updates for the remaining ones it sees (essentially never doing any UPDATES).
The only way I avoid duplicate rows by the key column is to process each file individually and execute a mapping data flow for each file within a for each activity. Does anyone have any approach that would avoid duplicates while processing all files within a single mapping data flow without a foreach activity for each file?
Does anyone have any approach that would avoid duplicates while processing all files within a single mapping data flow without a foreach activity for each file?
AFAIK, there is no other way than using ForEach loop to process file one by one.
When we use wildcard, it takes all the matching file in the one go. like below same values from different file.
using alter rows condition will help you to upsert rows if you have only on single file as you are using multiple files this will create duplicate records like this similar question Answer by Leon Yue.
As scenario explained you have same values in multiple files, and you want to avoid that to being getting duplicated. to avoid this, you have to iterate over each of the file and then perform dataflow operations on that file to avoid duplicates getting upsert.
I'm using Data Factory (well synapse pipelines) to ingest data from sources into a staging layer. I am using the Copy Data activity with UPSERT. However i found the performance of incrementally loading large tables particularly slow so i did some digging.
So my incremental load brought in 193k new/modified records from the source. These get stored in the transient staging/landing table that the copy data activity creates in the database in the background. In this table it adds a column called BatchIdentifier, however the batch identifier value is different for every row.
Profiling the load i can see individual statements issued for each batchidentifier so effectively its processing the incoming data row by row rather than using a batch process to do the same thing.
I tried setting the sink writebatchsize property on copy data activity to 10k but that doesn't make any difference.
Has anyone else come across this, or a better way to perform a dynamic upsert without having to specify all the columns in advance (which i'm really hoping to avoid)
This is the SQL statement issued 193k times on my load as an example.
Does a check to see if the record exists in the target table, if so performs an update otherwise performs an insert. logic makes sense but its performing this on a row by row basis when this could just be done in bulk.
Is your primary key definition in the source the same as in the sink?
I just ran into this same behavior when the columns in the source and destination tables used different columns.
It also appears ADF/Synapse does not use MERGE for upserts, but its own IF EXISTS THEN UPDATE ELSE INSERT logic so there may be something behind the scenes making it select single rows for those BatchId executions.
I need to process millions of records coming from MongoDb and put a ETL pipeline to insert that data into a PostgreSQL database. However, in all the methods I've tried, I keep getting the out memory heap space exception. Here's what I've already tried -
Tried connecting to MongoDB using tMongoDBInput and put a tMap to process the records and output them using a connection to PostgreSQL. tMap could not handle it.
Tried to load the data into a JSON file and then read from the file to PostgreSQL. Data got loaded into JSON file but from there on got the same memory exception.
Tried increasing the RAM for the job in the settings and tried the above two methods again, still no change.
I specifically wanted to know if there's any way to stream this data or process it in batches to counter the memory issue.
Also, I know that there are some components dealing with BulkDataLoad. Could anyone please confirm whether it would be helpful here since I want to process the records before inserting and if yes, point me to the right kind of documentation to get that set up.
Thanks in advance!
As you already tried all the possibilities the only way that I can see to do this requirement is breaking done the job into multiple sub-jobs or going with incremental load based on key columns or date columns, Considering this as a one-time activity for now.
Please let me know if it helps.
I want to export the data from Cloud SQL (postgres) to a CSV file periodically (once a day for example) and each time the DB rows are exported it must not be exported in the next export task.
I'm currently using a POST request to perform the export task using cloud scheduler. The problem here (or at least until I know) is that it won't be able to export and delete (or update the rows to mark them as exported) in a single http export request.
Is there any possibility to delete (or update) the rows which have been exported automatically with any Cloud SQL parameter in the http export request?
If not, I assume it should be done it a cloud function triggered by a pub/sub (using scheduler to send data once a day to pub/sub) but, is there any optimal way to take all the ID of the rows retrieved from the select statment (which will be use in the export) to delete (or update) them later?
You can export and delete (or update) at the same time using RETURNING.
\copy (DELETE FROM pgbench_accounts WHERE aid<1000 RETURNING *) to foo.txt
The problem would be in the face of crashes. How can you know that foo.txt has been writing and flushed to disk, before the DELETE is allowed to commit? Or the reverse, foo.txt is partially (or fully) written, but a crash prevents DELETE from committing.
Can't you make the system idempotent, so that exporting the same row more than once doesn't create problems?
You could use a set up to achieve what you are looking for:
1.Create a Cloud Function to extract the information from the database that subscribes to a Pub/Sub topic.
2.Create a Pub/Sub topic to trigger that function.
3.Create a Cloud Scheduler job that invokes the Pub/Sub trigger.
4.Run the Cloud Scheduler job.
5.Then create a trigger which activate another Cloud Function to delete all the data require from the database once the csv has been created.
Here I leave you some documents which could help you if you decide to follow this path.
Using Pub/Sub to trigger a Cloud Function:https://cloud.google.com/scheduler/docs/tut-pub-sub
Connecting to Cloud SQL from Cloud Functions:https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/connect-functionsCloud
Storage Tutorial:https://cloud.google.com/functions/docs/tutorials/storage
Another method aside from #jjanes would be to partition your database by date. This would allow you to create an index on the date, making exporting or deleting a days entries very easy. With this implementation, you could also create a Cron Job that deletes all tables older then X days ago.
The documentation provided will walk you through setting up a Ranged partition
The table is partitioned into “ranges” defined by a key column or set of columns, with no overlap between the ranges of values assigned to different partitions. For example, one might partition by date ranges, or by ranges of identifiers for particular business objects.
Thank you for all your answers. There are multiples ways of doing this, so I'm goint to explain how I did it.
In the database I have included a column which contains the date when the data was inserted.
I used a cloud scheduler with the following body:
{"exportContext":{"fileType": "CSV", "csvExportOptions" :{"selectQuery" : "select \"column1\", \"column2\",... , \"column n\" from public.\"tablename\" where \"Insertion_Date\" = CURRENT_DATE - 1" },"uri": "gs://bucket/filename.csv","databases": ["postgres"]}}
This scheduler will be triggered once a day and it will export only the data of the previous day
Also, I have to noticed that in the query I used in cloud scheduler you can choose which columns you want to export, doing this you can avoid to export the column which include the Insertion_Date and use this column only an auxiliary.
Finally, the cloud scheduler will create automatically the csv file in a bucket
I am new to SSIS and am after some assistance in creating an SSIS package to do a specific task. My data is stored remotely within a MySQL Database and this is downloaded to a SQL Server 2014 Database. What I want to do is the following, create a package where I can enter 2 dates that can be compared against the create date/date modified per record on a number of tables to give me a snap shot and compare the MySQL Data to the SQL Data so that I can see if there are any rows that are missing from my local SQL Database or if any need to be updated. Some tables have no dates so I just want to see a record count on what is missing if anything between the 2. If this is better achieved through TSQL I am happy to hear about other suggestions or sites to look at where things have been done similar.
In relation to your query Tab :
"Hi Tab, What happens at the moment is our master data is stored in a MySQL Database, the data was then downloaded to a SQL Server Database as a one off. What happens at the moment is I have a SSIS package that uses the MAX ID which can be found on most of the tables to work out which records are new and just downloads them or updates them. What I want to do is run separate checks on the tables to make sure that during the download nothing has been missed and everything is within sync. In an ideal world I would like to pass in to a SSIS package or tsql stored procedure a date range, shall we say calender week, this would then check for any differences between the remote MySQL database tables and the local SQL tables. It does not currently have to do anything but identify issues, correcting them may come later or changes would need to be made to the existing sync package. Hope his makes more sense."
Thanks P
To do this, you need to implement a Type 1 Slowly Changing Dimension type data flow in SSIS. There are a number of ways to do this, including a built in transformation aptly called the Slowly Changing Dimension transformation. Whilst this is easy to set up, it is a pain to maintain and it runs horrendously slowly.
There are numerous ways to set this up using other transformations or even SQL merge statements which are detailed here: https://bennyaustin.wordpress.com/2010/05/29/alternatives-to-ssis-scd-wizard-component/
I would recommend that you use Lookup transformations as they perform better than the Slowly Changing Dimension transformation but offer better diagnostics and error handling than the better performing SQL merge statement.
Before you do this you will need to add a Checksum or Hashbytes column to your SQL data for ease of comparison with the incoming MySQL data.
In short, calculate some sort of repeatable checksum as the data is downloaded into your SQL Server, then use this in an SSIS Lookup, matching on the row key, to check for changes. Where the checksum value is different for the same row it needs updating and where there is no matching row key in your SQL Data you need to insert the new row.