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Ron,
Thanks a lot for helping me.
When I said it is hard, I was thinking about the more complex things then just successful DML, like exception handling and other things. It is easy to send something to something else. Like from Perl do some piping to SQL*Loader, but then what. What to do with errors/discards, ....
It is not good enough. You need to have the
environment where you can create more complex business
logic.
SQL*Loader output are the table rows + multiple files
for errors, discards.
When you are using bulk DML in C or Perl or whatever you get errors back then deal with them properly.
SQL*Loader is great but as PL/SQL or anything else is not for all purposes.
Why do you think you cannot beat SQL*Loader speed?
At the end it is based on C OCI, is not it?
And do not believe it they are updating that piece of
SW all the time :)
Like exp/imp.
They said in the past use PL/SQL, but PL/SQL did not have bulk DML for a long time. They fixed it properly only from 9i.
We had proper bulk DML in 8i too and beat PL/SQL in
many things.
As I found that PL/SQL implemented prefetching in 10g
while you have that in OCI from Oracle.
Would you believe that. Flagship PL/SQL could not compare with Pro*C or OCI some time ago.
Oracle is not perfect, neither their applications. What is new about Oracle is that they are now listening around for good advices and implementing them.
Regards,
Zoran
> Zoran,
>
> Even though it sounds like it would be hard to use
> Perl and sqlldr together, it is not. Named pipes
> have been around for (it seems) decades and command
> piping (putting one program's STDOUT onto another
> program's STDIN) has been around forever. After you
> get the hang of it, you will be amazed at what you
> can do with the combination of the your favorite
> shell and Perl.
>
> I have not used execute_array, but you may also find
> that no matter how hard you try, you will not beat
> sqlldr's speed for bulk inserts.
>
> -----------------
> Ron Reidy
> Lead DBA
> Array BioPharma, Inc.
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