Syntax options: ASYNC BATCH WRITES ARE ENABLED | ASYNC BATCH WRITES ARE DISABLED Specifies whether asynchronous batch-writes are enabled or disabled. Asynchronous batch-writes allow a process to write batches of modified data pages to disk asynchronously (the process does not stall while waiting for the batch-write operation to complete). Asynchronous batch-writes improve the performance of update applications without the loss of data integrity. By default, batch-writes are enabled. For more information about when to use asynchronous batch-writes, see the Oracle Rdb7 Guide to Database Performance and Tuning. You can enable asynchronous batch-writes by defining the logical name RDM$BIND_ABW_ENABLED.