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Bulk Upload of Data into Appian DB(Dealing with Lakhs of Records)
harshav
over 7 years ago
Hi All,
I would be getting data from External system in an Excel sheet where I need to insert all the data into Appian DB
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brettf
over 7 years ago
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To tag onto colton's post above, I would recommend using an external tool to generate the SQL insert statements. The website sqlizer.io can take in an excel file and generate the code, as long as the excel…
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Chris
over 7 years ago
Good suggestions. Just to add, I do bulk updates nightly for 30,000 rows. Data is loaded into Appian via CSV file on the server, loaded into a CDT, CDT manipulated to retrieve unique keys then ran through a Write to DS node. This is off hours, but works fine and the only thing to watch out for is that you schedule this away from server checkpointing (notorious for creating errors when timing conflicts with large DB activity).
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Chris
over 7 years ago
Good suggestions. Just to add, I do bulk updates nightly for 30,000 rows. Data is loaded into Appian via CSV file on the server, loaded into a CDT, CDT manipulated to retrieve unique keys then ran through a Write to DS node. This is off hours, but works fine and the only thing to watch out for is that you schedule this away from server checkpointing (notorious for creating errors when timing conflicts with large DB activity).
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