>
> In that case you should also include COMMITs every few 1000 lines
> to avoid long transaction aborted issues.
>
> And it's not dbaccess that deletes the rows but the server.
> dbaccess justs sends the SQL statements.

thank you for your advice although it is clear to me that dbaccess does
not delete any rows, but to explain something it is easier to say "is
it fast?" instead of "blablub how fast are the sqls processed by the
server".

greetings
chris