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  1. 01-03-2001, 11:17 AM #1
    trogen
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    I have a flat file of data and I want to insert that into a table.
    How can I do that. Doing an insert sql statement wouldnt be feasible since ive got about 1000s of records to be inserted.
    Thanks in advance.
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  2. 01-03-2001, 12:50 PM #2
    pwoneill
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    check out Oracle documentation on SQL*Loader, or if you're more comfortable you could just write a script that creates insert statements from the flatfile, just make sure to commit after a certain batch size so you don't overload a rollback segment.
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  3. 01-03-2001, 04:30 PM #3
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    You should consider the size & type of the flat file also. If it is going to be binary data use BLOB type which can store 4GB of data. If it is a ascii file use LOB type column.

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