On Apr 30, 4:35 pm, hpuxrac <johnbhur..._at_sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Apr 30, 4:07 pm, EscVector <J..._at_webthere.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm looking for suggestions on the fastest way to dump 100+ Million
> > rows from Oracle to an ASCII file.
> > We've looked at external table with data pump. This works with speed,
> > but that format is proprietary. We've also looked at UTL_FILE and
> > this is slow. Looking for ideas suggestions. Streams possibly? Any
> > third party freeware?
>
> Traditionally for best speed one tactic is a c program running on same
> server as database use bequeath or ipc type connection.
Great suggestion. Thought of this but they didn't want to go with C
or C++. Will explore concurrency/threading issues and maybe I can
convince that it's not so bad.... I've only ever created single
threaded C processes. What to do if C/native can't be used?
Received on Mon Apr 30 2007 - 15:51:07 CDT
