Oracle Enterprise Loader - Direct vs. Conventional Path

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Oracle Enterprise Loader - Direct vs. Conventional Path

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Can anyone tell me about the Direct and Conventional paths used in Oracle loader and also how are these related to indexes.
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Direct path load ignores the index while loading data when its finished it has to do maintainence work make the index usable or rebuild the indexes entirely. While conventional path load uses the general sqlldr to insert records to the oracle table keeping indexes intact.
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sridharvg wrote:Can anyone tell me about the Direct and Conventional paths used in Oracle loader and also how are these related to indexes.
Sure, your DBA. :wink:
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Thanks a lot guys.
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