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AdministeringIn addition to administering the database server, you can tune performance, replicate data, and archive data.
System administrationThese topics contain concepts, procedures, and reference information for database and database server administrators to use for managing and tuning HCL OneDB™ database servers.
Administrator's GuideThe HCL OneDB™ Administrator's Guide provides the information required to administer HCL OneDB™.
Disk, memory, and process management
Moving data with external tablesYou can use external tables to load and unload database data.
Performance considerations when using external tablesUse external tables when you want to manipulate data in an ASCII file using SQL commands, or when loading data from an external data file to a RAW database table.

Performance considerations when using external tables

Use external tables when you want to manipulate data in an ASCII file using SQL commands, or when loading data from an external data file to a RAW database table.

There are several ways to load information into a database, including:

LOAD FROM ... INSERT INTO... DB-Access command
dbimport utility
External tables

External tables provide the best performance for loading data into a RAW table with no indexes.

Note: Locking an external table prior to loading data increases the load performance