Hi Jason.

Please please please, if you are using FB then kick IBConsole to the
curb and switch to either IBExpert (personal or buy full version;
this is a beautiful piece of software IMHO) or IB_SQL (free; not as
featured as IBExpert, but does the job and has some very useful
features of its own). Or IBWorkbench, but I haven't tried that
myself (not free). Links to these progs are in the Group New User
Links database (see sidebar).

Plus it's not that hard to make a csv->fixed-format converter, if you
haven't already. I'll happily send you my own utility or the delphi
code so that you can convert to another language.

Regards,
Andrew Ferguson
- HeLen: one L of a woman!

--- In ib-support@y..., "Jason Frey" <jason_frey@k...> wrote:
> > Jason - I think you should persist with the idea of external
files as stated by David ...
> > I just ran a little test here on 400K records using your data as
a sample - and found
> > that an isql insert with commits takes about 280sec
> > on firebird 1.0 on PIII Linux Mandrake 8 - 1Gb processor whereas
the external file
> > option took 12 sec. Big difference.
>
> I got the external file thing to work (stupid cr/lf's.. Had to put
them in their own column to get it to work properly), and it did the
trick quite handily.
> Unfortunatley for me, I have to support both FB and SQLServer
(Possibly Oracle further down the road), so I'm either going to have
two methods of doing this, or go with something slower. Another
unfortunate thing is that the fast way of doing it in FB and
SQLServer are so different (FB with the external tables, SQLServer
with the data import utility). Makes me wish my customers weren't
clamoring for SQLServer (and Oracle down the line). :)
>
> - Jason
>
> PS - I realize that IBConsole is not warrantied to work with
Firebird at all, but it does, so we've been using it... I just ran my
scripts through ISQL (I hate command line stuff... I'm not used to
the old DOS days anymore. :)), and it was a TON faster. Just an FYI
for anyone out there in my situation, thinking that everything is
equal. I would have thought it either would be equal, or it wouldn't
work at all, not be a lot slower one way vs the other.
>
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