In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Terry Lee Tucker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

% elements of 50 thousand records on 8 structurally identical databases. We 
% threw together the script and decided to just delete the record and re-insert 
% it with the data that was brought into sync. Now the question: Is it just as 
% fast to do it this way, or is there some hidden advantage to performing an 
% update?

If you have foreign key relationships to the table being updated, then
deleting from that table will often be slower than updating.


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Patrick TJ McPhee
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