Paul, I don't get it. Without a better understanding of your app it makes it rather difficult. For instance, why are there FK constraints that need to be disabled during a load? If the tables are loaded in the correct order, and load script via SQL*Loader, PL/SQL, Perl or whatever you use should be able to handle this. I've not worked at an ASP, but have developed on a system where many customers data had to be loaded on a daily basis. What is preventing a procedural process with PL/SQL batch loading from being used? Jared On Wed, 2004-04-28 at 12:26, Paul Baumgartel wrote: > We are running Oracle 9.2.0.4. We are an application service provider, > and our database contains information on all of our customers. > Currently, when we move a new customer from staging to production we: > 1. Export the new customer's data (using QUERY=) from staging > 2. Disable all foreign keys in production > 3. Disable all triggers in production > 4. Import into production > 5. Enable FKs > 6. Enable triggers > > We have to take the site down for maintenance to do this, due to the FK > and trigger manipulation. I want to replace this procedure with a > better one. > > Our tables are partitioned by company. I wanted to use partition > exchange (load new company data into a "shadow" non-partitioned table, > then exchange into new partition), but AFAIK there can be no > referencing FKs against either table's PK, so that's out. I've also > considered transportable tablespaces, but we employ multi-master > replication on production for redundancy, and transportable tablespaces > are not supported in that case. > > I'm committed to eliminating export and import from the procedure, as > they bring too many restrictions with them (no control over commits, > etc.). At worst, I guess we can dump to a flat file and load from > there, using deferrable constraints (with one commit at the end of the > procedure), and triggers with a condition that causes them not to fire > if we're doing a data load. My question: is there another (easier!) > way to go, given our setup? > > TIA. > > ===== > Paul Baumgartel > Transcentive, Inc. > www.transcentive.com > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs > http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------