DataDirect Bulk Load offers a simple, consistent way to do bulk load operations. See “Using DataDirect Bulk Load” for details.The Oracle Wire Protocol driver uses array binding instead of DataDirect Bulk Load in the following situations:
n The Oracle server version is older than Oracle 9i R1 (9.0.1)The Oracle Wire Protocol driver currently does not support the use of LONG and LONG RAW data types with array binding.Because of Oracle limitations, issuing a SELECT statement to determine a row count may return different results before and after a bulk load operation.Oracle does not support literal values in a bulk load operation. You must use parameter markers for all columns being loaded.