Re: large updates and deletes

2006-01-25 Thread Steven Lembark
-- Robert Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Steven Lembark wrote: >> >> -- Robert Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>> I have been handed a couple of requests to change some data. One is an >>> update on 3.6 million records and the other is two different deletions >>> of over 16 million rows of data. I

Re: large updates and deletes

2006-01-21 Thread Robert Hicks
Steven Lembark wrote: -- Robert Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have been handed a couple of requests to change some data. One is an update on 3.6 million records and the other is two different deletions of over 16 million rows of data. I need to be able to do these in batches as I am told that Or

Re: large updates and deletes

2006-01-20 Thread Robert Hicks
mark d wrote: On 1/18/06, Robert Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mark d wrote: On 1/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mark d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This optimization might have made some sense decades over a serial line, but not today. It is saving 320 single-pack

Re: large updates and deletes

2006-01-19 Thread Steven Lembark
-- Robert Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have been handed a couple of requests to change some data. One is an > update on 3.6 million records and the other is two different deletions of > over 16 million rows of data. I need to be able to do these in batches as > I am told that Oracle will "blow

Re: large updates and deletes

2006-01-19 Thread Robert Hicks
Andy Hassall wrote: I have been handed a couple of requests to change some data. One is an update on 3.6 million records and the other is two different deletions of over 16 million rows of data. I need to be able to do these in batches as I am told that Oracle will "blow up" if I do them in on

Re: large updates and deletes

2006-01-18 Thread mark d
On 1/18/06, Kevin Carothers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm not an Oracle person by ANY stretch of any imagination, but with SQL > Server, you can insert the "new" records into a new table, drop the old > table, and re-name the new table- thereby eliminating stuff in the rollback > tra

Re: large updates and deletes

2006-01-18 Thread Kevin Carothers
Hi all, I'm not an Oracle person by ANY stretch of any imagination, but with SQL Server, you can insert the "new" records into a new table, drop the old table, and re-name the new table- thereby eliminating stuff in the rollback transaction log Dunno if this is at all possible w/ Oracle, just

RE: large updates and deletes

2006-01-18 Thread Andy Hassall
> I have been handed a couple of requests to change some data. One is an > update on 3.6 million records and the other is two different > deletions of > over 16 million rows of data. I need to be able to do these > in batches as I > am told that Oracle will "blow up" if I do them in one shot. "

Re: large updates and deletes

2006-01-18 Thread mark d
On 1/18/06, Robert Hicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mark d wrote: > > On 1/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> mark d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> This optimization might have made some sense decades over a serial line, > >>> but > >>> not today. It is saving 320 s

Re: large updates and deletes

2006-01-18 Thread Robert Hicks
mark d wrote: On 1/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: mark d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This optimization might have made some sense decades over a serial line, but not today. It is saving 320 single-packet round trips, which is an infintesimal amount of traffic. Well, t

Re: Re: large updates and deletes

2006-01-18 Thread mark d
On 1/18/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mark d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This optimization might have made some sense decades over a serial line, but > > not today. It is saving 320 single-packet round trips, which is an > > infintesimal amount of traffic. > > Well, tr

Re: Re: large updates and deletes

2006-01-18 Thread amonotod
mark d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This optimization might have made some sense decades over a serial line, but > not today. It is saving 320 single-packet round trips, which is an > infintesimal amount of traffic. Well, traffic wise, you're right. But, it also saves parsing all those row

Re: Re: large updates and deletes

2006-01-18 Thread mark d
>>I have been handed a couple of requests to change some data. One is an >>update on 3.6 million records and the other is two different deletions of >>over 16 million rows of data. I need to be able to do these in batches as I >>am told that Oracle will "blow up" if I do them in one shot. >> >>I wo

Re: large updates and deletes

2006-01-17 Thread Martin Hall
Robert Hicks wrote: I have been handed a couple of requests to change some data. One is an update on 3.6 million records and the other is two different deletions of over 16 million rows of data. I need to be able to do these in batches as I am told that Oracle will "blow up" if I do them in one