To insert data from an Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) or SQL Server database, use the LOCATION syntax of the INSERT statement.
INSERT INTO iq_table LOCATION 'ase_servername.ase_dbname' { SELECT col1, col2, col3,... FROM owner.ase_table }
SAP Sybase IQdoes not support the Adaptive Server Enterprise data type TEXT, but you can execute INSERT...LOCATION (Syntax 3) from both an IQ CHAR or VARCHAR column with length is greater than 255 bytes, or a LONG VARCHAR column, and from an ASE database column of data type TEXT. ASE TEXT and IMAGE columns can be inserted into columns of other SAP Sybase IQ data types, if SAP Sybase IQ supports the internal conversion. INSERT...LOCATION does not support the use of variables in the SELECT statement. By default, if a remote data column contains over 2GB, SAP Sybase IQ silently truncates the column value to 2GB.
Users must be specifically licensed to use the Unstructured Data Analytics functionality.
You may substitute curly braces {} for the single quotation marks that delimit the SELECT statement. (However, curly braces represent the start and end of an escape sequence in the ODBC standard, and may generate errors in the context of ODBC.)
The following command inserts data from the l_shipdate and l_orderkey columns of the lineitem table from the SAP Sybase IQ database iq11db.dba on the server detroit, into the corresponding columns of the lineitem table in the current database:
INSERT INTO lineitem (l_shipdate, l_orderkey) LOCATION 'detroit.iq11db' { SELECT l_shipdate, l_orderkey FROM lineitem }
This example inserts the same columns as the previous example, but only for the rows where the value of l_orderkey is 1. Also in this example, the TDS packet size is specified as 512 bytes.
INSERT INTO lineitem (l_shipdate, l_orderkey) LOCATION 'detroit.iqdb' PACKETSIZE 512 { SELECT l_shipdate, l_orderkey FROM lineitem WHERE l_orderkey = 1 }