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  • January 26, 2008 at 8:06 am

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    Philip Barry (1/25/2008)

    Hi Jeff,

    Is this principal of limiting the number of rows for the deletion operation also applicable to updating? I have to update several hundred thousand rows and I want to do this in the most effective (and stable) way!

    Thanks for all your help thus far,

    Phil

    Basically, yes. Along with some of the considerations ALZDBA has above...

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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