The simple answer is, don't use DBI. Every decent database has a specialized "loader" program, that bypasses SQL completely and pumps in the raw data for each table from a data file. The various loader programs vary in syntax and features, but for Oracle, have a look at sqlloader, Sybase and MSSQL have a similar program.

The problem is now that you can't have computed fields in your database, as the loader will most likely not have the capabilities, but you can always load the database first and then update the fields that need (Perl) computation.

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web
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