Re: Ridiculously high number of commits

Hi Zhu,

My whole problem is that it is not our code - if it were, there would be no problem! It is code that is part of a standard SAP Business Warehouse installation, so only SAP can change it.

Thanks,
Scott Hutchinson
Interact Analysis Ltd.

Quoting zhu chao <zhuchao_at_gmail.com>:

> The Most easy and efficitve way, is to change your load application do
> commit every 1000(for exmaple) rows. Check the application with developer
> see if that is possible.
> Also, can you consider using sqlldr to load.
> If you are using multple thread, either consider using multiple freelists
> for that table, or place it in assm tablespce. that should hlep.
> If commit rate can't be changed, reduce the log buffer maybe helps.
> On 10/10/05, scott.hutchinson_at_interact-analysis.com <
> scott.hutchinson_at_interact-analysis.com> wrote:
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I have a performance problem while loading data into SAP/BW from flat
> > files.
> > This process for loading the data is a standard SAP routine, and it
> issues
> > a
> > COMMIT after each record is inserted - we have about 20 million rows to
> > insert,
> > so this is a lot of commits!
> >
> > We've broken the load process into 10 jobs that run concurrently, however
> > they
> > spend the majority of their time sitting around waiting on "log file
> > sync",
> > which is no great surprise. I have a target of 4 hours for loading this
> > data
> > into SAP's "Info Cubes", but this is currently taking 8 hours.
> >
> > Does anyone have any smart ideas for lessening the impact in the database
> > from
> > issuing such a high number of commits?
> >
> > btw - the DB server is a 12 CPU HP running at 12% utilisation during the
> > load.
> > And yes - we are also enganging SAP to see if they can improve their load
> > process.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Scott Hutchinson
> > Interact Analysis Ltd.
> >
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