Re: update about 100K records

Maryann Atkinson wrote:
>
> I have a table of about one million records.
>
> About 100,000 of them have a flag which I need it set to 0.
>
> Because of the size of the rollback segment, I cannot
> update them all and then commit, I need to do it in
> sets of 1000 records.
>
> Do I need a cursor for this?
>
> I had something like that:
> DECLARE
> I BINARY_INTEGER;
>
> Cursor MyCursor IS
> SELECT *
> FROM (Table_Name)
> WHERE (Condition)
> FOR UPDATE;
>
> BEGIN
> I := 0;
> FOR MyRec IN MyCursor LOOP
> UPDATE (Table_name)
> SET delete_flag = 1
> WHERE CURRENT OF MyCursor;
>
> I := I + 1;
> IF MOD(I, 1000) = 0 THEN
> COMMIT;
> END IF;
>
> END LOOP;
> END;
> /
>
> But "FOR UPDATE" does not really work well, and at the 1000th record
> when it reaches the commit, its dropping out of the loop.
>
> Can I use ROWNUM to update them in batches of 1000 per time?
>
> Thanks,
> maa

MaryAnn,

   I am surprised by your assessment about the size of the rollback segment not allowing you to do this in one operation. Setting a flag is not a major change, the amount of rollback generated shouldn't be _that_ tremendous. Couldn't you rethink about this? Writing something complicated to accommodate the DB is a bit like pushing the grand piano when it is too far from the stool. After all, the first reason why you have a DB is to process business operations, not the reverse.

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