See the chapter 8 of oracle8i utilities documentation. There is description on when you can/cannot use direct load/ conventional path load which gives fair idea of what to use/not use depending on the situation, time you have for load and #of records you want to load etc.,. If you don't have documentation there is link for 817 documentation posted on 12/22/00 under the subject "8.1.7 doc" which takes you to technet documentation library. you need to have technet membership to access the documentation.



[Edited by sreddy on 12-27-2000 at 12:27 PM]