Re: It took more than an hour to update 10,000 records

Hello David

Define index on all fields in the where clause. Full table scan or reading a lot of records by index for each sql statement can cause this.

Yechiel Adar
Mehish
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> Hi all,
>
> I write a script to update 10,000 records in my database and noticed it
took
> more than an hour to update 10,000 records. The script just includes
10,000
> SQL update commands as shown below. Is the time too long to update 10,000
> records? Is it a way to improve the update task to run faster. Please
> advise.
>
> *** A portion of my update script is shown below:
>
> update dbimpl.npa_nxx set ported_flag = 1 where nxx_id = 206 and npa_id =
> 201 and lata_id = 224;
>
> update dbimpl.npa_nxx set ported_flag = 1 where nxx_id = 207 and npa_id =
> 201 and lata_id = 224;
>
>
> Thanks,
> David
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