RE: How to do a bulk bind to load data into a table

from my understanding the FORALL statement only helps you when processing data in collections or with BULK when retrieving rows into collections. the bulk bind functionality is btw only available starting with 9i. you might want to try to bulk retrieve the data in a collection and then to bulk insert it in the new table but i would guess that the only real way to optimize your statement might by to go for the "insert into b select a" construct if this is an option in your case.

DO

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From: rick_at_dormir.org [mailto:rick_at_dormir.org] Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 22:05 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: How to do a bulk bind to load data into a table

I'm looking at a way to speed up a huge insert (100K records at a time). In looking at FORALL, it looks like it could do what I want, but I'm not sure how to set it up correctly. What I currently do is:

set up a cursor, selecting the rows from table a for cursor_rec in cursor_data loop
   insert into table b
   commit evey 2K rows

end loop

Is there a better way to do this?

Thank you for your help.

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