bulk load of data

From: John Leslie <johnleslie_at_madasafish.com>
Date: 1 Mar 2003 02:45:25 -0800
Message-ID: <4412dd31.0303010245.1b2bd4c2@posting.google.com>

Age old question I guess, but looking for the up to date answer.

We have requirement to process up to 500,000 records of data currently held in a text file.

Currently we process these through external C procedures and only totals are loaded into the database, Now we have a functional requirement which probably means we need to load all the records into a database table.

Is sqlloader still the quickest option?

What other options are there? We know that utl_file is too slow. External tables?

Platform is 8.1.7 on AIX moving soon to 9i release 2

If there any up to date documents or discussion threads you can point me at please do so.

John Received on Sat Mar 01 2003 - 04:45:25 CST