Audience
DBAs and DW ETL architects needing to rapidly unload very large database tables
About IRI Fast Extract (FACT)
IRI FACT™ (Fast Extract) rapidly unloads large tables to external files using DB-native APIs, SQL SELECT syntax, and a choice of split (parallel) query methods.
Unlike other database unload methods (e.g., Oracle data pump), FACT creates portable flat files. Your 'dump-table-to-file' data is thus quickly available for any purpose, including: reorgs, transforms, pre-load sorting, migrations, change and summary reporting, ETL, replication, testing, and protection.
If you also use the IRI Voracity platform or IRI CoSort product, you can use their core SortCL program to perform or accelerate all these post-extraction steps at once. But you do not have to use SortCL; i.e., once the data are in flat files, you can do anything you want with them.
FACT's extract performance is second to none. Using superior connection protocols, parallel hints and queries, and a variety of other proprietary techniques, FACT's unload rate is much faster than database spool or export functions.
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IRI, The CoSort Company
Founded: 1978
United States
www.iri.com/products/fact
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IRI Fast Extract (FACT) Frequently Asked Questions
IRI Fast Extract (FACT) Product Features
Data Extraction
Disparate Data Collection
Supported
Document Extraction
Not Supported
Email Address Extraction
Not Supported
IP Address Extraction
Not Supported
Image Extraction
Not Supported
Phone Number Extraction
Not Supported
Pricing Extraction
Not Supported
Web Data Extraction
Not Supported
ETL
Data Filtering
Supported
Metadata Management
Supported
Non-Relational Transformations
Supported
Data Analysis
Not Supported
Data Quality Control
Not Supported
Job Scheduling
Not Supported
Match & Merge
Not Supported
Version Control
Not Supported
