This looks like it may be a database question you just haven't asked yet and to which the answer is likely to be database-dependent.

For example, if you were inserting into Sybase, then all other things being horribly equal, you would be

1) building a huge uncheckpointed transaction log and

2) locking database resources on a grand scale

3) creating a single transaction of gigantic proportions.

Any one of which even taken alone could be causing such symptoms.

If the database isn't Sybase, the same cause may be happening conceptually, but will demonstrate different database-dependent symptoms.

Please may we have the rest of the loop plus the identity and version of the RDBMS.

One world, one people

In reply to Re: processing huge files by anonymized user 468275
in thread processing huge files by geektron

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