markdown/datamgmt/load/g-transfer-and-store-the-data.html.md.erb

---
title: Transfer and Store the Data
---

<!--
Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
distributed with this work for additional information
regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
"License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at

  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
software distributed under the License is distributed on an
"AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
specific language governing permissions and limitations
under the License.
-->

Use one of the following approaches to transform the data with `gpfdist`.

-   `GPLOAD` supports only input transformations, but is easier to implement in many cases.
-   `INSERT INTO SELECT FROM` supports both input and output transformations, but exposes more details.

-   **[Transforming with GPLOAD](../../datamgmt/load/g-transforming-with-gpload.html)**

-   **[Transforming with INSERT INTO SELECT FROM](../../datamgmt/load/g-transforming-with-insert-into-select-from.html)**

-   **[Configuration File Format](../../datamgmt/load/g-configuration-file-format.html)**