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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
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Data Extraction
Disparate Data Collection
Document Extraction
Email Address Extraction
IP Address Extraction
Image Extraction
Phone Number Extraction
Pricing Extraction
Web Data Extraction
ETL
Data Filtering
Metadata Management
Non-Relational Transformations
Data Analysis
Data Quality Control
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