Showing posts with label db2 import upload data howto command. Show all posts
Showing posts with label db2 import upload data howto command. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

DB2 Import Commands Failing With "transaction log for db is full" Errors

Trying to upload test data with the DB2 Import Utility. I have a .CSV file with 100,000 records in it. It used to work; then I added another column and now it fails with "transaction log for database is full" errors.

:-(

It turns out that it wasn't committing enough. In fact I didn;t know when I was committing at all. I discovered that the "sensible" defaults can sometimes not be so sensible. In order to explicitly set a commit count you need to add the following to your import command (highlighted in red):
db2 "import from [your_csv_file_name] of del commitcount 1000 insert into [table_name]([column A], [column B], [column C], ...)"