Export ODBC to AZ Blob Storage in JSON

Fast, parallel data export with zero intermediate storage

Terminal

.\FastBCP.exe `
--connectiontype "odbc" `
--dsn "DSN_4_DATASOURCE" `
--database "tpch" `
--trusted `
--sourceschema "tpch10" `
--sourcetable "orders" `
--query "SELECT * FROM tpch10.orders" `
--directory "abs://storageaccount.blob.core.windows.net/fastbcpoutput/raw/{sourcedatabase}/{sourceschema}" `
--fileoutput "{sourcetable}.json" `
--decimalseparator "." `
--dateformat "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss" `
--encoding "UTF-8" `
--method "Ntile" `
--distributekeycolumn "o_orderkey" `
--paralleldegree -2 `
--merge false `
--runid "runidfromcaller"

Get FastBCP

Source - ODBC

ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) allows connection to virtually any database. FastBCP supports ODBC connections for maximum compatibility.

Features:

•Compatible with any database supporting ODBC
•Maximum flexibility
•Standard ODBC driver support

Parallel Method - Ntile

Divides data into N equal partitions based on a numeric column.

Requirement: Requires a numeric distribution column

Available parallel methods with ODBC:

Output Format - JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)

JSON is the most widely used data exchange format on the web. FastBCP exports data to JSON Lines (NDJSON) format, with one record per line for efficient streaming.

Features:

•JSON Lines (NDJSON) format
•One record per line for streaming
•UTF-8 encoding
•Compatible with all JSON parsers

Destination - Azure Blob Storage

Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft's object storage solution. FastBCP uploads files to Azure containers with optimized block upload for maximum throughput.