LOCK TABLE & speeding up mass data loads

Hi,

Would LOCK TABLE ACCESS EXCLUSIVE MODE speed things up, when I have
a script that loads data by setting transactions, and then committing
works after every few thousand INSERTs?

Thanks,
Ron
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