I contemplated not sending this to the whole list, since it is getting
astray from the intent of the DBI list.
Thought it might be best to clear up a couple of things though. If anyone
wants to prolong this discussion, let's keep it off the list.
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On Friday 08 June 2001 15:11, Pettit, Chris L wrote:
> 2) Direct Path formats are fussy, and, if i remember, prefer/need fixed
> length fields.
> Fixed lengths in a non-varchar field could mean LOTS of dead space
No, comma delimited works just fine with direct load.
> 4) Tablespace extents can be a bigger problem.
No, not really. A large number of extents is not actually
a problem with an Oracle database.
> 11) Didn't they just announce a DBD::Oracle Pure-OCI module like last week
Probably not something to use in production code yet.
Jared
