We have an ETL process that our clients run on their SQL Servers. They must be SQL2005 or above. The ETL runs once a night. No other updates are allowed to the DB. Our ETL runs from SSIS and reads several hundred AS400 DB2 tables and uses 'insert bulk STAGETABLE1' to load the data into SQL. Currently we are Recovery Model Simple. But wondering if during the INSERT BULK portion of the ETL, or even possibly during the entire ETL, if we should change to Bulk Logging. Some of our clients are quite large and the ETL is pushing the time limits. Anything we can do to reduce time for the running time of the ETL would be huge.
While reading I have not seen it discussed going from SIMPLE to BULK Logging. Any gotchas? Think that there will be a time savings?