ODBC Inserts are very slow

Hi,

I am new to the windows world. We use Informatica on UNIX for ETL process. We have a requirement to load approx. 200,000 rows to a MS SQL Server table . The table is not that big and it is a heap table (no indexes). Inserts are taking 69 rows/per minute. We are using DataDirect Closed 4.10 SQL Server ODBC driver.

SQL Profiler tells us that is is doing a row by row processing and using sp_execute procedure.

Is there a way we can speed up the ODBC process?

-Thanks in advance
srv

SQL Server Version:
Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.818 (Intel X86) May 31 2003 16:08:15 Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation Standard Edition on Windows NT 5.0 (Build 2195: Service Pack 4)That would appear to be an older version of Informatica (pre-2003 installation). There was a problem that was fixed late in the year (2003-09 I think).

As a work-around, have Informatica generate a flat text file (tab delimited is my preference, columnar is often simplest, CSV is tolerable). FTP that file to your NT machine, then use DTS or BCP to load the file into SQL Server. You should have no trouble getting 10000 rows per minute from a mid-range workstation, and could get 1000000 rows per minute on a sufficiently beefy server.

-PatP|||If possible use DTS in SQL server which used BULK LOAD process for such load and for further information refer to the books online or http://www.sqldts.com website.
HTH|||We performed a test with Informatica 7.x and same odbc drivers and it 4 times faster. --Thanks