Inserts can be painfully slow in autocommit mode because each commit involves
an update of the log on the disk for each INSERT statement. The commit will not
return until a physical disk write is executed. To speed things up:
- Run in autocommit false mode, execute a number of inserts in one
transaction, and then explicitly issue a commit.
- If your application allows an initial load into the table, you can use the
import procedures to insert data into a table.
will not log the
individual inserts when loading into an empty table using these interfaces. See
the and the
for more information on the
import procedures.