Re: Automatic Commits?
Posted in 1996
In article <58q51c$pi7@cssun.mathcs.emory.edu>, elderbox@teleport.com
writes
>
>Another database engine which we had a while ago and which I don't care
>name here allowed us to specify that during an sql insertion I
>want the engine to automatically do a commit after say 100 rows have been
>inserted. We are now very happily using Online Version 7.1, but cannot
>find a way to do this. This is a problem for us since we have a need to
>periodically transfer as many as 200k rows from one database to another
>and must have logging turned on. We run out of log space and locks.
>
>We didn't want to have to write an esql/c program to do this chore. We do
>not have 4GL at this time. Does anyone know of a way to accomplish this?
>
>elderbox@teleport.COM Public Access User --- Not affiliated with Teleport
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>
Look into the tool dbload, you can tell it to commit after x rows
where x is any sensible number you choose.
--
David Williams