Re: Should I use a MERGE table?

2001-11-15 Thread Anthony R. J. Ball
Hrm... so it is going to need to rebuild all the indexes, not just the table I am adding... doh... oh well, should still be faster, I'd guess. Probably my best bet in this case is to create a new merged table with the new table and all the other old ones, then replace the old merged table with

Re: Should I use a MERGE table?

2001-11-15 Thread Bill Adams
"Anthony R. J. Ball" wrote: > Ok, so to follow... Paul Dubois told me the little > RENAME TABLE trick to swap out a table... Will that work > on a table in a MERGE, or are there different hoops to > jump through? Your table names need to be unique. Then it should work just fine. o If you do

Re: Should I use a MERGE table?

2001-11-15 Thread Anthony R. J. Ball
Ok, so to follow... Paul Dubois told me the little RENAME TABLE trick to swap out a table... Will that work on a table in a MERGE, or are there different hoops to jump through? On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 02:01:44PM -0800, Bill Adams wrote: > "Anthony R. J. Ball" wrote: > > > I was just readin

Re: Should I use a MERGE table?

2001-11-15 Thread Bill Adams
"Anthony R. J. Ball" wrote: > I was just reading DOCS for MERGE tables... and they > look like exactly what I want. > > I have a large lookup table that I use to track down > where I want to find my data, which gets loaded into > different tables at different times of the day > (financial dat