Campaign offers support for using database load utilities to increase performance for pushing ID lists into temporary tables, and for exporting data back into the database. This functionality works with most common database load utilities, which are available directly from the database vendors. It is your responsibility to obtain licensed copies of these utilities.
The Campaign load support is controlled though a series of properties defined on the
Marketing Platform Configuration page. For more information, see the
Marketing Platform Administrator's Guide.
When you use most database load utilities, you must also specify a control file. Campaign can generate this file dynamically based on a control file template that you configure. You only need to configure these files once; no changes are required from the user interface.
When Campaign needs to populate data to the database (for example, for a Snapshot process or a contact process such as MailList, or an ID list into temporary tables), it does the following: