Re: Is sqlplus too slow to unload data?

2002-05-01 Thread Tim Gorman
Bin, You're absolutely correct that we had mentioned the use of SQL*Plus as a cheap homegrown SQL*Unloader tool in our book, and I've posted Gary's unload.sql scripts on my website (http://www.EvDBT.com/library.htm) as well. But for high-volumes of data, SQL*Plus simply does too much work (it

Re: Is sqlplus too slow to unload data?

2002-04-30 Thread ozemail
Tim, Thank you for your reply. There are two issues that I cannot use pipe. One is two databases are in two different isolated network. Second is we need the flat files for archives. BTW, whenever we can use PIPE, we can use database link. Is it right? I understand that SQLPlus is just a

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2002-04-30 Thread ozemail
Stephane, pdqout does give me a real good impression, not only the speed but also the interface. I can see it uses parallel query. However, I, as a production DBA, intend to change the application which come from a third party as a package as small as possible. It takes 4hours to extract data at

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2002-04-30 Thread Stephane Faroult
Stephane, pdqout does give me a real good impression, not only the speed but also the interface. I can see it uses parallel query. However, I, as a production DBA, intend to change the application which come from a third party as a package as small as possible. It takes 4hours to extract data

Re: Is sqlplus too slow to unload data?

2002-04-25 Thread Jared Still
On Tuesday 23 April 2002 21:53, Bin Wang wrote: Hi, Our application uses sqlplus + sqlloader to transfer data between databases. It takes nearly four hours to unload to data to flat files(1G), which is far too slow. In the application, the query looks like the following. All those 3,4,5

RE: Is sqlplus too slow to unload data?

2002-04-25 Thread Kimberly Smith
Hey Jared, I got quite a few folks waiting for your book now. I am really pushing Perl at the office:-) When is the scheduled release again? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 12:03 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On Tuesday 23 April 2002 21:53, Bin Wang

RE: Is sqlplus too slow to unload data?

2002-04-25 Thread Jared . Still
: Is sqlplus too slow to unload data? Hey Jared, I got quite a few folks waiting for your book now. I am really pushing Perl at the office:-) When is the scheduled release again? -Original Message- Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 12:03 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On Tuesday

Re: Is sqlplus too slow to unload data?

2002-04-24 Thread Bin Wang
Bruce, SQLPlus: set pages 0; set lines 1; set termout off; set trimspool on; set trimout on; set echo off; set feedback off; set verify off; set recsep off; set arraysize 2000; PDQOut is 3rd party product I test. I also test the PL/SQL from Thomas Kyte's book. I call it from sqlplus, and

RE: Re: Is sqlplus too slow to unload data?

2002-04-24 Thread Stephane Faroult
As somebody who has insider's knowledge of pdqout and a decent understanding of exp and SQL*Plus, I think that you must have a good number of numbers and dates in your data. Both types (as opposed to strings) require conversion. Which is why exp, which dumps bytes 'as is', can be so fast -

RE: Is sqlplus too slow to unload data?

2002-04-24 Thread Toepke, Kevin M
If you have PRO*C and a c-compiler, you can follow this link (you need both lines) to download a basic sqlunldr tool. It is almost as fast as exp. http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:646297::NO::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID,F 4950_P8_CRITERIA:459020243348,%7BSQLDA%7D Caver -Original

Re: Is sqlplus too slow to unload data?

2002-04-24 Thread Tim Gorman
It's SQL*Plus. Love it to pieces, but it just dawdles when used as an unloader. It must spend a tremendous amount of processing just formatting or something... Never bother blaming the network or Net8 unless you are just trying to get someone off your back to delay for time. DBAs will say it

Is sqlplus too slow to unload data?

2002-04-23 Thread Bin Wang
Hi, Our application uses sqlplus + sqlloader to transfer data between databases. It takes nearly four hours to unload to data to flat files(1G), which is far too slow. In the application, the query looks like the following. All those 3,4,5 are for sqlldr format. select ' ' || '4' || replace(

RE: Is sqlplus too slow to unload data?

2002-04-23 Thread Reardon, Bruce (CALBBAY)
Bin, Have you tried setting term off in your sqlplus session - what effect does this have? I would guess that the Pro*C program also uses Net8 so the problem would be in SQLPlus. Which 3rd party product did you try? Have you tested PDQOut from http://www.oriole.com - this is written in OCI.