[resolved] Excel - Spreadsheet with over 200K rows to load into database

[talendtester]

I have an Excel Spreadsheet that has over 200K rows that I need to load into database and is 18 columns wide. The data has commas in it. I keep running into "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space"
My job looks like:
tFileInputExcel > tMap > tTeradataOutput

I have tried lowering the "Commit every" to 100. I am not doing any transformations on the data I am just passing it to be loaded.
What else can I do?

[Anonymous]

It shouldn't use much memory.
Can you go to your run tab, go to Advanced Settings, and tell us the values used in "Job Run VM Arguments"?

[talendtester]

I don't have the Use specific JVM arguments checked. With 4GB of RAM should I check it and use Xms64M, Xmx1024?
Statistics is checked
Save Job before execution is checked
Exec time is checked
Clear before run is checked

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

If you look at your task manager while executing the job, is the java.exe process taking a lot of memory? Also if you have your statistics enabled, how much data are you loading before reaching the Memory issue?
Also, is your excel file local or on a shared drive?
Is the Teradata Db easily accessible or through a bunch of firewalls?
You could try one thing:
1- Load the Excel into a csv file (tFileOutputDelimited).
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2- Load the csv file into Teradata.
Adding an additional step might help you.

[talendtester]

The Excel is on my local hard drive. Exporting to .csv and then loading seems to help.
Thanks!