On 07/11/2012 04:47 PM, Shaun Thomas wrote:
On 07/11/2012 03:18 PM, Craig James wrote:

It strikes me as a contrived case rather than a use case.  What sort of
app repeatedly fills and truncates a small table thousands of times ...
other than a test app to see whether you can do it or not?

Test systems. Any company with even a medium-size QA environment will have continuous integration systems that run unit tests on a trash database hundreds or thousands of times through the day. Aside from dropping/creating the database via template, which would be *really* slow, truncate is the easiest/fastest way to reset between tests.


Why is recreating the test db from a (populated) template going to be slower than truncating all the tables and repopulating from an external source? I had a client who achieved a major improvement in speed and reduction in load by moving to this method of test db setup.

cheers

andrew



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