Re: To Commit or NOT to Commit

Atish Prasad Das wrote:
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> frequent commits are always good...

Yes and no. I remember one developer who was importing million-line text files, and committing after each row. And I remember the look of shock on his face when I modified his program to commit every 500 rows and improved its performance by an order of magnitude... and we could probably have achieved even greater performance by proper tuning and optimization. :0)

g

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