RE: RE: Create Table..As Select: Number formats

2003-10-02 Thread Mark Richard
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Re: RE: Create Table..As Select: Number formats

2003-10-01 Thread Tanel Poder
> No, option B is as fast as CTAS (as long as you don't have any indexes on > the table). > Just make sure that your append hint works... Also you have to specify NOLOGGING on table or tablespace level when doing insert /*+ APPEND */ or use NOLOGGING hint if you're on 9i. Tanel. -- Please see

Re: RE: Create Table..As Select: Number formats

2003-10-01 Thread Tanel Poder
> Thanks to everyone who responded to this thread - > > Option A is now to persuade the designers to remove the Number formatting > from the parttioned table, > Option B is to pre-create the working table and populate it with Truncate > and Insert /* Append */ > > Option B will be slower, I think,

RE: RE: Create Table..As Select: Number formats

2003-10-01 Thread Simon . Anderson
Thanks to everyone who responded to this thread - Option A is now to persuade the designers to remove the Number formatting from the parttioned table, Option B is to pre-create the working table and populate it with Truncate and Insert /* Append */ Option B will be slower, I think, due to the

RE: RE: Create Table..As Select: Number formats

2003-10-01 Thread Stephane Faroult
:31 > >>>I'm trying to create a table using 'Create >>>Table...As Select...' >... > >> I don't think that there is any problem here. >Specifying the number of >digits is largely cosmetic - consider it as > a >default mask. It doesn't >affect how data is stored inside the tables AFAIK. >> >>

RE: Create Table..As Select: Number formats

2003-10-01 Thread Simon . Anderson
>>I'm trying to create a table using 'Create >>Table...As Select...' ... > I don't think that there is any problem here. Specifying the number of digits is largely cosmetic - consider it as > a default mask. It doesn't affect how data is stored inside the tables AFAIK. > > Regards, > > Ste

Re: Create Table..As Select: Number formats

2003-10-01 Thread Tanel Poder
Hi! > I'm trying to create a table using 'Create Table...As Select...' > > The contents will then be exchanged into a partitioned table, so they need > to have the same names and datatypes. Actually they do not have to have same column names, only the datatypes and column order has to be the same

RE: Create Table..As Select: Number formats

2003-10-01 Thread Stephane Faroult
>I'm trying to create a table using 'Create >Table...As Select...' > >The contents will then be exchanged into a >partitioned table, so they need >to have the same names and datatypes. > >Some of the columns in the created table are >populated with zeroes & will >be updated after the partition