Re: PL/SQL performance question

Marcel Stör wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Just out of curiosity, I'd like to get your opinion on the following
> scenario:
> Lots of data (i.e. 2 million records) are periodically loaded into the db
> through SQL Loader. Unfortunately, each record needs to be tweaked before
> will eventually be saved. Would it be faster to have an on-insert trigger do
> this at record level or to have a procedure that will run once all records
> are stored in the table?
>
> Regards,
> Marcel

Options

1. reference the data as an external table and use insert-append
2. direct sqlldr in v9 now supports a greater variety of things within the control file

hth
connor

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