Re: sqlldr

Ravi,  

To the best of my knowledge, there is no limitation on the number of records that can be loaded at a time other than the size of your rollback segments. I have loaded 10's of millions of rows in a single sqlldr job by setting some parameters. There are defaults that work, but don't perform very well. To determine appropriate settings, you may want to read an article I wrote for O'Reilly & Associates (located at http://oracle.oreilly.com/news/oraclesqlload_0401.html) which gives the step-by-step directions on setting 2 of the key parameters (BINDSIZE and ROWS). It's a pretty easy thing to do, but without knowing you data, the only advice I could give is that DIRECT is the best quick tuning fix if you can.  

If you are going to be doing any serious data loading with SQL*Loader, Jonathan's book Oracle SQL*Loader: The Definitive Guide would be a good investment.  

HTH
Stephen

>>> ravindra_at_navin.com 04/25/02 10:13PM >>>
i belive there is a limitation on the number of records that can be loaded
from sqlldr at a time based on the bind array and rows default parameter.
if i have a data file with more than 5000records(don't know the exact number) that needs to be imported using sqlldr what is the value i need to set for the "rows" and/or "bind array" for me to
load the records to the table at one attempt.

thanks
ravi

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