On 8/22/05, Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR) < Thomas.Mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I was thinking about this whole topic over the weekend. It just affirms > my feeling that using the NOLOGGING option needs to be used judiciously. And > I question how much time we are saving here. > Quite a bit of time actually. Try timing a bulk load operation with and without logging. If the total time to reload using NOLOGGING and a total backup is less than > a reload with LOGGING and no backup, then don't use it. > You don't need a complete database backup, just the datafiles containing the nologging objects. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist