Karol, currently now I am importing a .DBF table which has more or less 3.600.000 records and it is taking hours.
Exporting the .DBF to a delimited text file and then importing using an external table would be faster? Thanks in advance. Walter. On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 2:59 AM, karolbieniaszewski < [email protected]> wrote: > ** > > > > > --- In [email protected], "un_spoken" wrote: > > > > > > > > --- In [email protected], "rudibrazil78" wrote: > > > > > > Hi all > > > > > > We've been having to deal with a bad situation for quite a few years > now - how to handle large imports without taking the server down (in fact > that data is meant to be acessible as soon as its ready in production). > > > > We have the same problem. We are importing daily like 1000000 rows. > There are 100000 new rows each day and the rest are the rows which are > updating the ones which are already in the database. Import takes about an > hour for 100k rows. During the import many things can go wrong.. > > > > I would like to hear your strategies for this sort of problem:) > > > > Hi, > > i import 300 000 000 rows each day into my db by merge statement > and i use for import external tables. > > Whole import took 2 hours - and performance degradation is acceptable. > With 1000000 rows and external table you can finish in few minutes e.g. 3 > minutes. External table is solution for all imports. > > regards, > Karol Bieniaszewski > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Visit http://www.firebirdsql.org and click the Resources item on the main (top) menu. Try Knowledgebase and FAQ links ! Also search the knowledgebases at http://www.ibphoenix.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
