[freetds] named pipe as a host file for freebcp

Constantin Vasilyev vasilyev at ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Tue Jan 2 07:56:31 EST 2007


Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try.

Constantin Vasilyev
NCBI Contractor, DBA

On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Thompson, Bill D (London) wrote:

> Hi Constantin,
>
> If you want to copy data in bulk from one server to another, you can try
> using the "datacopy" executable we have in freeTDS.
> It was designed to do this job.
>
> Bill
>
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> Vasilyev
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> Subject: [freetds] named pipe as a host file for freebcp
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Native Sybase bcp allows using of named pipe as a host file for "bcp
> in".
> It is extremely useful for coping large tables from one server to
> another
> because virtually no disk space is required this way.
> I wonder how hard would it be to implement that in freetds bcp?
>
> Thanks,
> Constantin Vasilyev
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