Just started playing with MonetDB, and it is a tremendous piece of work. I do have a question on bulk loading table, i.e, a dump of some large tables we have in sybase for some testing. I found the ascii_io module and it looks like it is what is supposed to be used, if so is their and example of the format for the load_format() and any other helpfull tips. Looking at loading about 30 Million rows for some testing. Thanks for any help Sandy