The INPUT statement doesnt take any of the shortcuts used by LOAD TABLE,
so it isnt nearly as fast. What INPUT actually does is pass each row to the data-
base engine, one at a time, to be inserted. You can see this by turning on the
Request-Level Logging feature to see what the engine sees. Here is an example
that compares LOAD TABLE with INPUT when a two-line input file is loaded
into a two-column table:
CREATE TABLE t1 (
col_1 INTEGER NOT NULL,
col_2 INTEGER NOT NULL );