RE: How to do faster updates

From: Whittle Jerome Contr NCI <Jerome.Whittle_at_scott.af.mil>
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:48:27 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004CFBF3.20020913104827@fatcity.com>

Rajesh,

Build an index. If this is something you will do often; and if that column is a good candidate for an index; and if the index wouldn't slow down inserts and updates too much; consider creating an index. Make a copy of the table and see if an index helps or not. If nothing else you could always create an index; do the updates; and drop the index.

Jerry Whittle
ACIFICS DBA
NCI Information Systems Inc.
jerome.whittle@scott.af.mil
618-622-4145

-----Original Message-----
From:   Pillai, Rajesh [SMTP:Rajesh.Pillai@nordstrom.com]

Hi All,
   I've a table of 10 M records and I want to update some thousand records based on a column which is not a part of any index. Please suggest the quickest way to do this.

Thanks,
Rajesh

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