How to Commit in intervals

Question

Hi,
I have a situation where in I have to insert and update records in Bulk.
The insert statement is of the type -
INSERT INTO <tname> (col1, col2)
SELECT col1, co2 FROM <tname2>
Here my <tname2> table has million of records and my temp space gets filled up if I try to insert it at one go. I think this is because I am having a single commit and the records remain in the temp table space till that time.
Is there a mechanism of getting around this and be able to commit , say after every 10,000 records.
Regards
Deepak

Answer 1

Unless tname is a global temporary table, no records are being put in the temporary tablespace. I would bet that you are getting an ORA-01652 error.
01652, 00000, "unable to extend temp segment by %s in tablespace %s"
// *Cause:  Failed to allocate an extent for temp segment in tablespace.
// *Action: Use ALTER TABLESPACE ADD DATAFILE statement to add one or more
//         files to the tablespace indicated.When you do a bulk insert like yours, Oracle creates new extents if required as temporary extents in the same tablespace where the table being inserted is. Once the insert completes, the new extents are marked as permanent, and allocated to the table. My guess is that you do not have enough free space in the tablespace where tname resides to insert that much data.
As the Action line suggests, you need to allocate more space to that tablespace. Alternatively, you could remove some segments from the tablespace to make more room for the insert.
HTH
John