When you enable a database load utility, instead of holding all contact and response history in memory before writing to the staging tables, runtime writes the data to a staging file. You define the location of the directory containing the staging files with the externalLoaderStagingDirectory property. This directory contains several subdirectories. The first subdirectory is the runtime instance directory, which contains the
contactHist and
respHist directories. The
contactHist and
respHist directories contain uniquely named subdirectories in the format of
audienceLevelName.
uniqueID.
currentState, which contain the staging files.
The samples directory contains sample files to assist you with writing your own database load utility control files.