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Oracle Fusion Technical: Reports, Data, Integrations and Extensions · Module 7 · FBDI: the file-based loader end to end

Volume: loading a hundred thousand rows

Lesson 72 of 177 · 2 min

One enormous file is the worst of the available options, and it is what everybody tries first because it is one submission. Three limits bite. The upload has a file size ceiling. The import has a runtime beyond which it is stopped. And the interface tables carry the whole batch until the import completes, so a large file occupies a shared resource for its whole duration. THE REAL ARGUMENT AGAINST ONE BIG FILE IS THE RESTART. A hundred thousand rows failing at row ninety thousand leaves you with a partial load, a correction, and the duplicate problem from Lesson 8. The same load in twenty batches of five thousand fails one batch, which you fix and resubmit while the other nineteen are already done and reconciled. Where to split: on a natural boundary, not on a row count. By business unit, by period, by supplier range — something that means

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In this module: Module 7 · FBDI: the file-based loader end to end

  1. 1The FBDI sequence, and why order mattersFree preview
  2. 2Finding and reading the right template
  3. 3Mandatory columns, and the ones that only look optional
  4. 4Preparing the file without corrupting it
  5. 5Loading the interface tables
  6. 6Running the import and reading the output
  7. 7Errors: finding the row that failed
  8. 8Correcting and reloading safely
  9. 9Master data versus transactional loads
  10. 10Volume: loading a hundred thousand rows
  11. 11Proving the load landed
  12. 12Rollback, and why there usually is not one
  13. 13What breaks: six FBDI failures
  14. 14Lab briefing · A supplier and invoice load