in reply to Database input speed question

If you are experiencing slowdowns on batch insert, one cross-DBMS solution is to drop the indexes on the table, do the inserts, and re-create the indexes. This almost always speeds things up, at the expense of giving up uniqueness (primary key) checks in some DBMS.
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