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Oracle Merge Command

Oracle Tips by Burleson Consulting
By Mark Rittman

The Oracle Merge Command

Say you would like to take transformed data and use it to update our dimension table. In the past, we'd have accomplished this by a combination of INSERT and UPDATE statements, but starting with Oracle 9i we've now got the Oracle MERGE command which does this in one step. What's more, we can wrap up the whole transformation process into this one Oracle MERGE command, referencing the external table and the table function in the one command as the source for the MERGED Oracle data.

        alter session enable parallel dml;
    merge /*+ parallel(contract_dim,10) append */
        into contract_dim d
        using TABLE(trx.go(
            CURSOR(select /*+ parallel(contracts_

file,10) full (contracts_file) */ *
                from contracts_file ))) f
        on  d.contract_id = f.contract_id
        when matched then
            update set desc              = f.desc,
                       init_val_loc_curr = f.init_val_loc_curr,
                       init_val_adj_amt  = f.init_val_adj_amt
        when not matched then
            insert values ( f.contract_id,
                            f.desc,
                            f.init_val_loc_curr,
                            f.init_val_adj_amt); 
           

So there we have it - our complex ETL function all contained within a single Oracle MERGE statement. No separate SQL*Loader phase, no staging tables, and all piped through and loaded in parallel.

 



Related links:

Oracle Update Statement
Oracle Merge Performance Issues
Oracle 10g Enhanced Merge Functionality


 

 

  
 

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