Re: Problem with FETCH/INTO

Laurenz Albe <invite_at_spam.to.invalid> wrote:
> Dan Blum <tool_at_panix.com> wrote:
> >>> You can't fetch into a table. What you want there is a record collection.
> >>> Unless of course you really want to copy records from one table to
> >>> another, in which case you want to use INSERT INTO tblName2 SELECT FROM
> >>> tblName1 ...
> >
> >> Yeah. That's probably what I want except that it is a very big table,
> >> and I want to do it a few records at a time. Can I use the LIMIT
> >> modifier on an INSET INTO/ SELECT statement like that?
> >
> > Why do you want to do it a few records at a time?

> Just guessing, but maybe the 10^8 or so records that the query yields
> would not fit into memory?

That is irrelevant if you are simply inserting the rows into another table - there is no need for Oracle to hold all the rows in memory at once, and so it doesn't.

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