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Paul Bormans commented on NIFI-1706:
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Hello Koji,
I'm not familiar with the Views concept (have been "out" for some some since i
wrote the ticket), but i still feel that the processor is not very useful if
the aim is to extract "rich" data from an rdbms without support for a more
complex query. The only alternative that you then have is to extract on
per-table basis and join somewhere else...
Paul
> Extend QueryDatabaseTable to support arbitrary queries
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>
> Key: NIFI-1706
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1706
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core Framework
> Affects Versions: 1.4.0
> Reporter: Paul Bormans
> Assignee: Peter Wicks
> Priority: Major
> Labels: features
>
> The QueryDatabaseTable is able to observe a configured database table for new
> rows and yield these into the flowfile. The model of an rdbms however is
> often (if not always) normalized so you would need to join various tables in
> order to "flatten" the data into useful events for a processing pipeline as
> can be build with nifi or various tools within the hadoop ecosystem.
> The request is to extend the processor to specify an arbitrary sql query
> instead of specifying the table name + columns.
> In addition (this may be another issue?) it is desired to limit the number of
> rows returned per run. Not just because of bandwidth issue's from the nifi
> pipeline onwards but mainly because huge databases may not be able to return
> so many records within a reasonable time.
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