define large and are they simple inserts or updates? using external tables and simple sql might be worth looking at On 2/16/06, Jonathan Knight <knightjck_work@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > My current project requires a largish daily update to > a database table. Is there any way to do this with > SQL*Loader? If not, I'm looking at loading to a > temporary table and kicking off a PL/SQL job to update > the affected records. >