SQL*Plus spool to Fastload via named pipe (Windows) is barely faster than by flat file. - topic by tom.gnade

I've got Fastload opening a named pipe, and I'm redirecting the output from a SQL*Plus script to the pipe in Windows. I assumed this would be far faster than allowing SQL*Plus to spool the result to a file locally, and fastload to import the flat file. Turns out it's not.

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