In article <20011203110458.E93680-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com>,
Stephan Szabo wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Steve Brett wrote:
>
>> is there a limit/guide to the number of inserts you should use in a
>> transaction block ?
>
> Not a hard one, but I usually do thousands of rows (around 5k) per
> transaction when I'm batch inserting, and I usually set it there so
> I can watch its progress from another db session as the counts rise.
>
How do you set up the other session to watch?
marc
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