I should have specified that I am using org.apache.derby.jdbc.EmbeddedDriver. The file system is a local striped RAID.
-----Original Message----- From: Bryan Pendleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 12:06 PM To: Derby Discussion Subject: Re: Parallel loading, truncation, and booleans Are you running in Embedded or in Network Server mode? If you are running in Network Server mode, you could try loading your data in Embedded mode, then switching to Network Server mode for actual *use* of the data. That would eliminate the Network Server overhead during the load. thanks, bryan
