Re: Bulk Insert

On 05/16/2010 06:44 AM, Jasen Betts wrote:
> On 2010-05-16, David Jarvis<thangalin(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> What is the fastest way to insert 237 million records into a table that has
>> rules (for distributing the data across 84 child tables)?
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> segregate the data first and then copy it into the child tables.
>
> else copy it into a temp table and insert it from there using
>
> insert into CHILD_NAME select * from TEMPNAME where SEGREGATION CONDITION;
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> oryou may have success with the simple copy if you increase the number of file
> handles and buffers sufficiently.
>
>
>

If you segregate data, as Jasen suggests, you can even populate the
child tables in parallel, which should provide some performance improvement.

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