title: sql server table fast load isn't
body: <p>I've inherited an SSIS package which loads 500K rows (about 30 columns) into a staging table.</p>
  
  <p>It's been cooking now for about 120 minutes and it's not done --- this suggests it's running at less than 70 rows per second.  I know that everybody's environment is different but I think this is a couple orders of magnitude off from "typical".</p>
  
  <p>Oddly enough the staging table has a PK constraint on an INT (identity) column -- and now I'm thinking that it may be hampering the load performance. There are no other constraints, indexes, or triggers on the staging table.</p>
  
  <p>Any suggestions?</p>
  
  <p>---- Additional information ------<br>
  The source is a tab delimited file which connects to two separate Data Flow Components that add some static data (the run date, and batch ID) to the stream, which then connects to an OLE DB Destination Adapter</p>
  
  <p>Access mode is OpenRowset using FastLoad</p>
  
  <p>FastLoadOptions are TABLOCK,CHECK_CONSTRAINTS</p>
  
  <p>Maximum insert commit size: 0</p>