Innovative Routines International Inc. (IRI), makers of the high-performance CoSort (www.cosort.com) data manipulation package, announced that Fast Extract (FACT) for Oracle now runs on Windows. FACT users on Unix include: Accenture, American Airlines, Bisys, Comcast, CSC, Excelcom, Highmark, Reliance Retail, and Sungard.

FACT rapidly unloads large Oracle tables in parallel to portable flat files in fixed-or variable-length formats, using all supported combinations of native SQL SELECT features. FACT consumes only a small amount of system resources, without the need for load balancing. Initial laptop performance tests confirmed that FACT's rows-per-second unload rate doubles that of Oracle's spool command under Windows XP.