FTP

Guide to integrate your files using FTP

Datasource Concepts

Before setting up the datasource, learn about datasource concepts here

Step by Step Guide

STEP-1: Configure FTP/FTPs Connection

To learn about Connection, refer here

• Log into Sprinkle application

• Navigate to Datasources -> Connections Tab -> New Connection ->

• Select FTP or FTPs

• Provide all the mandatory details

  • Name: Name to identify this connection

  • Host: FTP Hostname

  • Port: FTP port. Default is 22.

  • User: FTP username

  • Password

• Test Connection

• Create

STEP-2: Configure FTP/FTPs datasource

To learn about datasource, refer here

• Navigate to Datasources -> Datasources Tab -> Add ->

• Select FTP or FTPs

• Provide the name -> Create

• Connection Tab:

  • From the drop-down, select the name of connection created in STEP-2

  • Update

STEP-3: Create Dataset

Datasets Tab: To learn about Dataset, refer here. Add Dataset for each directory that you want to replicate, providing following details

• Table Name (Required) : Table name suffix which will be used to create the table in the warehouse

• Directory Path (Required) :Provide the full path

• Ingestion Mode (Required) :

  • Complete: Full folder is downloaded and ingested in every ingestion job run

  • Incremental: Ingest only the new files in every ingestion job run. Use this option if your folder is very large, and you are getting new files continuously

    • Remove Duplicate Rows:

      • Unique Key: Unique key from table, to dedup data across multiple ingestions

      • Time Column Name: Will be used to order data for deduping

    • Max Job Runtime: Give maximum time in minutes for which data should be downloaded. Ingestion job will run specified max minutes and checkpoint will be updated. Next run will continue from checkpoint.

• File Type: Select the File Format

  • JSON

  • CSV

    • Select Delimiter - Comma, Tab, Pipe, Dash, Other Character

  • Parquet

  • ORC

• Destination Schema (Required) : Data warehouse schema where the table will be ingested into

• Warehouse Table name (Optional) : It is optional field. If not given, sprinkle will create like ds_<datasourcename>_<tablename>

• Destination Create Table Clause: Provide additional clauses to warehouse-create table queries such as clustering, partitioning, and more, useful for optimizing DML statements. Learn more on how to use this field.
• Create

STEP-4: Run and schedule Ingestion

In the Ingestion Jobs tab:

• Trigger the Job, using Run button

• To schedule, enable Auto-Run. Change the frequency if needed