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Re: do I use SQL*Loader or embedded SQL????

From: Ron Reidy <rereidy_at_indra.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 18:34:11 -0600
Message-ID: <3EADC883.8050901@indra.com>


You will be hard pressed to write anything in Pro*C/OCI which beats SQL*Loader performance.

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And if you did get something together which was speed equivalent, you could have probably done it all faster using a combination of shell, SQL*Loader, and PL/SQL.
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Ron Reidy
Oracle DBA

chris wrote:

> I'm sure this is a silly design question, but I'm curious as to why
> I'd ever want to do use embedded SQL from my Bourne Shell script, when
> it's easier to just write the output to a .ctl file and run sqlldr?
>
> Any idea which is more efficient? Have I missed anything?
>
> thanks.
>
> chris
Received on Mon Apr 28 2003 - 19:34:11 CDT

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