create a sequence and somehow involve it in a dummy manner in the update...
do a select current_val('sequence') to see how far updates have gone...
can we see the update stmt?
regds
mallah.
> We have an database batch update process running. It runs normally and
> takes around 6 hours. This is dealing with a much larger data set after
> an error correction. It's been running for 6 days now and people are
> getting twitchy that it might not finish. Is there any way (accepting
> that more preparation would, in retrospect, have been better) to tell
> how far we're got. This iterates round a cursor and updates individual
> rows. The trouble is it commits once at the end.
>
> The ideal would be to find a way of doing a dirty read against the
> table that is bing updated. Then we'd know how many rows had been
> processed.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
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