Incredibly Long Load CSV Using Desktop

Using straightforward Cypher to load data from a CSV and just create nodes.

Code is as follows:

:auto LOAD CSV WITH HEADERS FROM 'file:///registrants.csv' AS row
CALL {
WITH row
MERGE (r:Registrant {row_wid: toInteger(row.ROW_WID)})
ON CREATE SET
r.row_wid = toInteger(row.ROW_WID),
r.w_insert_dt = row.W_INSERT_DT,
r.w_update_dt = row.W.UPDATE_DT,
r.email_address = row.EMAIL_ADDRESS,
r.attendee_contact_wid = toInteger(row.ATTENDEE_CONTACT_WID),
r.attendee_account_wid = toInteger(row.ATTENDEE_ACCOUNT_WID),
r.reg_contact_wid = toInteger(row.REG_CONTACT_WID),
r.reg_account_wid = toInteger(row.REG_ACCOUNT_WID),
r.event_wid = toInteger(row.EVENT_WID),
r.tkt1_wid = toInteger(row.TKT1_WID),
r.tkt2_wid = toInteger(row.TKT2_WID),
r.tkt3_wid = toInteger(row.TKT3_WID),
r.tkt4_wid = toInteger(row.TKT4_WID),
r.tkt5_wid = toInteger(row.TKT5_WID),
r.tkt6_wid = toInteger(row.TKT6_WID),
r.current_flg = row.CURRENT_FLG,
r.delete_flg = row.DELETE_FLG,
r.created_on_dt = row.CREATED_ON_DT,
r.updated_on_dt = row.UPDATED_ON_DT,
r.reg_dt = row.REG_DT,
r.attend_dt = row.ATTEND_DT,
r.cancel_dt = row.CANCEL_DT,
r.alumni = row.ALUMNI,
r.reg_channel = row.REG_CHANNEL

} IN TRANSACTIONS of 1000 ROWS

Did this with 100 rows and it worked seamlessly. Trying to create with 700K rows and it has been running over 12 hours.

I'm a newbie so please excuse if I'm doing something wrong.

From my research this looks right.

Not getting any errors.

Please help>

Thank you.

See also duplicate question from StackOverflow: cypher - Incredibly Long load time for Load CSV in Neo4j Desktop - Stack Overflow