Re: Duplicate deletion optimizations

Hi Samuel!

On 6 January 2012 20:02, Samuel Gendler <sgendler@ideasculptor.com> wrote:
> Have you considered doing the insert by doing a bulk insert into a temp
> table and then pulling rows that don't exist across to the final table in
> one query and updating rows that do exist in another query?  I did a very
> brief scan of the SO thread and didn't see it suggested.  Something like
> this:
>
> update stats_5mn set count = count + t.count
> from temp_table t
> where stats_5mn.t_value = t.t_value and stats_5mn.t_record and
> stats_5mn.output_id = t.output_id;
>
> insert into stats_5mn
> select * from temp_table t
> where not exists (
> select 1 from stats_5mn s
> where s.t_value = t.t_value and s.t_record = t.t_record and s.output_id =
> t.output_id
> );
>
> drop table temp_table;

Am I right to assume that the update/insert needs to be placed into a
begin / end transaction block if such batch uploads might happen
concurrently? Doesn't seem to be the case for this question here, but
I like the solution and wonder if it works under more general
circumstances.

What's the overhead of creating and dropping a temporary table? Is it
only worth doing this for a large number of inserted/updated elements?
What if the number of inserts/updates is only a dozen at a time for a
large table (>10M entries)?