Bob, Unless you already have SQL in your flow files, I always recommend PutDatabaseRecord [1] over PutSQL. The former is basically a mashup of ConvertJSONToSQL -> PutSQL, but takes in data in any format supported by our record readers (CSV, Avro, XML, JSON, etc.) and takes care of all the SQL generation (and prepared statement stuff) under the hood. You should find it a lot easier to work with, and a lot faster than the older alternative, especially since PutDatabaseRecord is able to deal with an entire set of rows/records in one flow file, rather than having to split up large CSV files, e.g. into individual rows to get individual SQL statements. If you try it out, please let us know if you run into any issues, I will do my best to help get you up and going.
Regards, Matt [1] https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/components/org.apache.nifi/nifi-standard-nar/1.7.1/org.apache.nifi.processors.standard.PutDatabaseRecord/index.html On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 10:52 AM Kuhfahl, Bob <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m trying to get bulk inserts going using PutSQL processor but it’s > starting to get ugly so I need to reach out and see if any of you have been > down this path. > > > > If you have, here’s some info. If not, thanks for reading this far ☺ > > > > Background: > > Legacy database migration ETL task. Extract from one database, do a bunch > of transformations, then load it all into a postgresql repo. > > We have 100’s of tables with obviously many record structures *_and a ton > of data_.* > > > > According to: > > > https://community.hortonworks.com/articles/91849/design-nifi-flow-for-using-putsql-processor-to-per.html > > > > PutSQL, to do batch inserts, seems to want the form of the SQL statement > to be identical for each record type. > > e.g. Insert into Employee ("name", "job title") VALUES (?,?) > > > > Easy enough to build that *but* then it needs attributes for all the > values and types in the flow. > > e.g. > > 1. sql.args.1.value = Bryan B > > 2. sql.args.2.value = Director > > Use Update Attribute Processor to set sql.args.N.type Flow file attributes > > 1. sql.args.1.type = 12 (VARCHAR) > > 2. sql.args.2.type = 12 > > > > THIS implies my flow will need to create a couple attributes for every > single field in the dataflow – AND I’ll have to come up with logic to > determine what the data type is… > > > > I’m a newbie at this nifi stuff but that really does _not_ feel like I’m > going down a good path. > > I’m hand-jamming a proof of concept just to validate the above, but having > a hard time lining up the data types… (e.g. the database has a char(2) > field; trying char, trying varchar, …) > > > > The other SQL “insert-able” processors seem to want to read a file instead > of a flow, but I could easily be missing something. > > Suggestions would be appreciated! > > >
