On 3/22/06, Alfonso León <aleon68@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > it is doing a commit per record. > Thanks. You may want to take a look at the following parameters: buffer: size of buffer that import fills before commit recordlength: size of buffer that fills before write to disk If you want to keep commit=y, set the buffer size to some non-default value. Experiment with it a bit. http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96652/ch02.htm#1014036 -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist