Adam,

A> It might be splitting hairs, but conceptually I have a problem with
A> committing every n transactions for the sake of performance.

Oh so do I, but here we're talking mostly about one-time load
processes which are run in single-user mode and, in case of errors
might well consider acceptable to start over with a clean copy of the
database. Your mileage may vary. In such cases I tend to not consider
implications I would normally consider in other situations.

Ciao
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