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Chapter 3. Berkeley DB Features
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## Chapter 3. Berkeley DB Features

When using the Berkeley DB SQL API, there are features that you can manage using PRAGMAs that are unique to Berkeley DB. This chapter discusses these features.

## Using Bulk Loading

Bulk loading is an I/O optimization feature that is useful when loading large amounts of data to the database inside of a single transaction. The bulk load optimization avoids writing some log records to the journal file. This can provide significant performance benefits when loading a large number of new rows into a database.

When you use bulk load, nested transactions are disabled. This means that you cannot undo any single operation. Instead, if you want to undo a given operation, you must undo everything performed within the transaction.

It is not possible to use the bulk load functionality when replication is enabled.

To enable bulk loading, use:

PRAGMA TXN_BULK = 0 | 1;

Default value is `0`, which means the PRAGMA is turned off and so bulk loading is not in use. `1` means bulk loading is in use.

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