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The Loader provides you with functions for unloading, loading, and formatting data between different data sources and data targets using data streams.

This action is known as a transformation and is described using the syntax of the Loader or entries in the Loader-specific system tables.

A transformation is identified using Loader and SAP DB database instance details, a transformation type, the required part of the database catalog, and the data streams.

·        Loader connection:
Server node, database name, user name, password, SQL mode, ASCII code page, transaction size, MaxErrorCount, backup tool

·        SAP DB database connection:
Server node, database name

·        Transformation type:
EXTRACT: Data is to be unloaded.

LOAD: Data is to be loaded.
UPDATE Data is to be changed.

·        Part of the database catalog:
You can define the scope of the catalog objects of a SAP DB database involved in a transformation.

ALL: Entire database catalog
USER: Part of the database catalog that belongs to the specified user
TABLE: Part of the database catalog that belongs to the specified table
You can specify a set of qualified columns of one or more tables.

For the parts of the database catalog specified using ALL and USER, you can determine the commands and their runtime information from the system tables .

·        Data stream

 

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