RE: Any ETA on "truncate table" ?

2008-02-20 Thread Jim Newsham
Does anyone have insight into how the "import" would compare to the "drop/recreate" workaround, performance-wise? I'm currently using drop/recreate for a large number of tables, so just wondering if it would be worth trying import. Regarding holding up the truncate feature because of lack of sta

Re: moving columns between tables

2008-02-20 Thread Narayanan
Amir Michail wrote: On Feb 19, 2008 1:25 PM, Bryan Pendleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there a way to easily move a column from one table to another (as easy as a rename say)? alter table newtable add column newcolumn whatever-data-type; update newtable set newcolumn = (value that

Re: Any ETA on "truncate table" ?

2008-02-20 Thread fancellu
Unfortunately I don't have the free time to help the project, I have enough of my own fish to fry. However, as a work around, I've found it much quicker to simply drop the table and then recreate it with the same name. e.g. Statement stat=conn.createStatement(); stat.executeUpda