Streaming from the client via VerticaCopyStream

The VerticaCopyStream class lets you stream data from the client system to Vertica. It lets you use the SQL COPY statement directly without having to copy the data to a host in the database cluster first by substituting one or more data stream(s) for STDIN.

Notes:

• Use Transactions and disable auto commit on the copy command for better performance.

• Disable auto commit using the copy command with the 'no commit' modifier. You must explicitly disable commits. Enabling transactions does not disable autocommit when using VerticaCopyStream.

• The copy command used with VerticaCopyStream uses copy syntax.

• VerticaCopyStream.rejects is zeroed every time execute is called. If you want to capture the number of rejects, assign the value of VerticaCopyStream.rejects to another variable before calling execute again.

• You can add multiple streams using multiple AddStream() calls.

Example usage:

The following example demonstrates using VerticaCopyStream to copy a file stream into the database.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Data;
using System.IO;
using Vertica.Data.VerticaClient;
namespace ConsoleApplication
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            // Configure connection properties
                    VerticaConnectionStringBuilder builder = new VerticaConnectionStringBuilder();
                builder.Host = "192.168.1.10";
            builder.Database = "VMart";
            builder.User = "dbadmin";
            //open the connection
            VerticaConnection _conn = new VerticaConnection(builder.ToString());
            _conn.Open();
            try
            {
                using (_conn)
                {
                    // Start a transaction
                            VerticaTransaction txn = _conn.BeginTransaction();

                            // Create a table for this example
                            VerticaCommand command = new VerticaCommand("DROP TABLE IF EXISTS copy_table", _conn);
                command.ExecuteNonQuery();
                    command.CommandText = "CREATE TABLE copy_table (Last_Name char(50), "
                                    + "First_Name char(50),Email char(50), "
                                    + "Phone_Number char(15))";
                    command.ExecuteNonQuery();
                    // Create a new filestream from the data file
                            string filename = "C:/customers.txt";
                 Console.WriteLine("\n\nLoading File: " + filename);
                    FileStream inputfile = File.OpenRead(filename);
                    // Define the copy command
                            string copy = "copy copy_table from stdin record terminator E'\n' delimiter '|'" + " enforcelength "
                        + " no commit";
                    // Create a new copy stream instance with the connection and copy statement
                            VerticaCopyStream vcs = new VerticaCopyStream(_conn, copy);

                            // Start the VerticaCopyStream process
                            vcs.Start();
                            // Add the file stream
                            vcs.AddStream(inputfile, false);

                            // Execute the copy
                            vcs.Execute();

                            // Finish stream and write out the list of inserted and rejected rows
                            long rowsInserted = vcs.Finish();
                IList<long> rowsRejected = vcs.Rejects;
                // Does not work when rejected or exceptions defined
                    Console.WriteLine("Number of Rows inserted: " + rowsInserted);
                    Console.WriteLine("Number of Rows rejected: " + rowsRejected.Count);
                    if (rowsRejected.Count > 0)
                    {
                        for (int i = 0; i < rowsRejected.Count; i++)
                        {
                            Console.WriteLine("Rejected row #{0} is row {1}", i, rowsRejected[i]);
                        }
                    }

                            // Commit the changes
                            txn.Commit();
            }
            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
            }


                    //close the connection
                    _conn.Close();
    }
    }
}