Re: Update takes an insanely long time

1-What is the Number of Indexes on the concerned table ?
2-Are you using RAID-5 ?
3-Locking ??

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"Tapan Trivedi" <tapan.trivedi_at_abbnm.com> wrote in message news:38502FDE.E3EDB5F1_at_abbnm.com...
> Hi gurus,
> I have a question for you all. One of my developers is trying to
> update a table with around
> 16500 records . She is trying a very simple update statement
> update tablename set column1 = 'N' where column1 = 'Y'
> She has around 12500 records which will be affected.
> It has taken around 16 hours now for this simple operation. Other
> tables on the same
> instance do not have any problems for similar updates.
> There were about 35 constraints on this table which I disable hoping
> to do better this time
> without any success. Am I missing something obvious ? Should I be
> concerned about anything else ??
>
> Any comments,
> suggestions , ideas will be appreciated.
>
>
> Tapan H Trivedi
> Will be grateful if you could reply to the e-mail address also.
>
>
>
Received on Thu Dec 09 1999 - 23:26:42 CST