RE: RE: Data load options

>> Must be the narcotics.
Lack of .. or..
a tad too darn much ?

;-)

• Kirti

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Koivu, Lisa [SMTP:lisa.koivu_at_efairfield.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 10:47 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: RE: Data load options
>
> Oh yes. You are right. It loads full blocks above the HWM. Forgot to
> mention that... thanks for pointing out that VERY important bit of info.
> Must be the narcotics.
>
> Lisa
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dgoulet_at_vicr.com [SMTP:dgoulet_at_vicr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 11:03 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re:RE: Data load options
>
> Lisa,
>
> SQL*Loader in direct path can cause you storage problems since it
> always
> appends to the table(s) ignoring blocks on the free block list. I found
> that
> out after a developer was using it for our data warehouse. At the end of
> a year
> he had burned almost 100GB of disk & it kept increasing even though he was
>
> trying to keep only a rolling 180 window. On a hunch we exported the
> data,
> truncated the table & imported the data back in. The amount of tablespace
> being
> used dropped 50%.
>
> Dick Goulet
>

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