Ilja Golshtein wrote:

Sounds like your working with an existing database - if you are starting from scratch (inserting data into an empty database) then there are other things that can help too.

I am working with existing database, though I am interested what "other things" 
you mean.

Basically when adding data to a table some of the time spent inserting is spent updating indexes.

When starting a database from scratch it is much faster to import the data and then create the indexes. The time to create index on a full table is less than the extra time from each index update from the inserts. The more indexes to update the more time updating indexes takes.

The problem with a live database is removing the indexes slows down current users and if you are adding 2,000 rows to a table that already has 5,000,000 rows in it then you will loose the benefit.


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