Hi Nic, use COPY which is recommended and fastest way to load data from text files. http://monetdb.cwi.nl/SQL/Documentation/Data-Manipulation.html#Data-Manipula... You can even directly import gzip files: COPY INTO mytable FROM '/path/file.txt.gz' USING DELIMITERS '|','\r\n'; You could also import SQL directly with mclient but this is slower: mclient -l sql -u username -d databasename < myfile.sql Vlad On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Nic Chidu wrote:

What way do you suggest for bulk uploading data?

Thanks.

Nic

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