Re: Rows Imported per min

From: Steve Butler <sbut-is_at_seatimes.com>
Date: 1996/05/09
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960509122534.16965A-100000_at_seatimes>#1/1

On Wed, 8 May 1996, Sameer Utrankar wrote:

> I am trying to get an average speed of import in terms of number of
> rows per min. It could depend on several factors and cannot really be
> a specific number but just to get an idea :
 

> high/low etc. It seems import is nowhere near sql loader speed.

sqlldr with DIRECT = TRUE is orders of magnitude faster than sqlldr without. import is orders of magnitude slower than sqlldr without DIRECT = TRUE.

I always look for some other way than to use exp/imp for any table of significant size. export even runs slower than I'd expect.

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