Re: Capacity questions

On 06/17/2012 01:02 PM, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Bill House <wch-tech@house-grp.net> wrote:
>
>> I have a written a script which does what I want it to do on a table
>> with 999 records.
>>
>> I was wondering if there is anything I need to consider if I run this
>> script on a table with 1.1 million records?
> It looks fine for me. The only note is that, I may be wrong, but
> "UPDATE %s SET del = False" updates the records having del already
> false too, taking more time and creating unnecessary bloat. Adding
> "WHERE del" may help keeping the bloat to the minimum.
>
> -- Daniele
>
>
You are referring to the first SQL command, and you are correct.  And on
a table this size, time is a consideration; even if it is a one-time task.

Thanks very much.

Regards,

Bill