General question about rotating growing tables

2002-12-04 Thread Qmail List
Hello, I have a simple database schema with a table of log entries that grows quickly. Every month I'd like to break last month's entries off into a new table for that (last) month. I know creating new tables within an existing schema is not recommend database design, but in this case it seems to

Re: General question about rotating growing tables

2002-12-04 Thread gerald_clark
How about Create newtable select * from oldtable where conditions_are_met; Qmail List wrote: Hello, I have a simple database schema with a table of log entries that grows quickly. Every month I'd like to break last month's entries off into a new table for that (last) month. I know creating

Re: General question about rotating growing tables

2002-12-04 Thread Qmail List
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:49 AM Subject: Re: General question about rotating growing tables How about Create newtable select * from oldtable where conditions_are_met; Qmail List wrote: Hello, I have a simple database schema with a table of log entries that grows

Re: General question about rotating growing tables

2002-12-04 Thread Qmail List
But there would be no way to variably create the newtable table name correct? Thx - Original Message - From: gerald_clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Qmail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 10:49 AM Subject: Re: General question about rotating