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 Clear and Reload or Update Tables

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empyrean
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14 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-01 : 14:15:27
Hi i have a question in sql server.. we had a dts package which runs everynight to get the records, here it was set up in such a way that it first clears the tables and then it download the entire data to server from another server. one table has 8 million records and another 3-4 tables has 4 ot 5 million records.. i believe updating the table every night is good way to do.. but when i talk to my colleague, i was told that updating will take more time as it has to match each and every item and see so we do clear and reload. is that true??

Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)

7020 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-01 : 14:44:49
It depends on many things, including how many of the rows would actually be updated.

The only way to know for sure is to test it.



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