Fastest for Inserting into Oracle?

[goldenorb82]

Hello,
I am a .NET newbie and have been doing a lot of reading to answer my
question, but i am guessing that it is so basic, there isn't a lot
available out there. Here's my problem: I am creating an API written
in C# that connects to the Oracle Database and reads/writes data. I
have an array that contains the information that will be input into
the 45 columns of the database. At some point I need to be able to
insert maybe 5-6 thousand records at a time because one a time will be
very slow since there should be nearly 60,000 records in the database.
In my reading I have found the following methods to do a bulk insert:

1. Bulk Bind
2. Insert into Select *... (I know this doesn't make sense in my case)
3. Batch Insert
4. Insert DataSet

Which (if any) would be fastest and most sensible for my situation? I
have really don't know much about what any of these mean, but if i'm
pointed in the right direction, that would be a great help.

thank you

[Jim Kennedy]

"goldenorb82" <go*********@gmail.com> wrote in message
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Hello,
I am a .NET newbie and have been doing a lot of reading to answer my
question, but i am guessing that it is so basic, there isn't a lot
available out there. Here's my problem: I am creating an API written
in C# that connects to the Oracle Database and reads/writes data. I
have an array that contains the information that will be input into
the 45 columns of the database. At some point I need to be able to
insert maybe 5-6 thousand records at a time because one a time will be
very slow since there should be nearly 60,000 records in the database.
In my reading I have found the following methods to do a bulk insert:

1. Bulk Bind
2. Insert into Select *... (I know this doesn't make sense in my case)
3. Batch Insert
4. Insert DataSet

Which (if any) would be fastest and most sensible for my situation? I
have really don't know much about what any of these mean, but if i'm
pointed in the right direction, that would be a great help.

thank you

Use Oracle's OCI api and using bind variables do array insert.
Jim