Now you're thinking! I had once asked if they had access to the server itself and could run the program from it, and I found out the server is off-site.
But I wonder if I can get their IT guy to do a scheduled task for me.... All the program would have to do is the processing to the resulting temp table and then do an "unload all" to a file that can be uploaded so that they can then at their leisure run the reports, error checking, etc., against it. Cool idea! Karen -----Original Message----- From: jan johansen <[email protected]> To: karentellef via RBASE-L <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Apr 28, 2017 4:27 pm Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Compute vs Select If they only run this code once a month, why don't you put the code in a bat file and run it on the server off hours and send the results to someone? -----Original Message----- From: karentellef via RBASE-L <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 17:21:29 -0400 Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Compute vs Select I have no temp tables created yet. Probably won't be getting to this project until next week, just gathering ideas at this time. They'll next run the program on May 20 (they run it once a month) so I'd like to have something in place by then Karen -----Original Message----- From: Dan Goldberg <[email protected]> To: rbase-l <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Apr 28, 2017 3:47 pm Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - Compute vs Select Have u tried indexing the temp tables? Dan Goldberg Lance Camper On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 1:07 PM -0700, "karentellef via RBASE-L" <[email protected]> wrote: Just an FYI I did a comparison of "compute" vs "select" in Version X (works the same as 9.5). See the print-screen below. I tested with a where clause that will fail, I tested both a SUM and a COUNT: With zero ON (my default) SUM "compute" returns a null "select" returns a 0 COUNT both return a 0 No errors are returned With zero OFF SUM both return a null COUNT both return a 0 A "warning" is returned only for the Select Sum So in my old code, I can replace my "compute" with "select" when I'm doing a "COUNT" because it always returns a 0 However, I cannot easily replace my "compute SUM" with a "select" because the program tests for a result being null, and it instead would evaluate as 0. I would have to either (a) change my checking to look at 0 rather than null or (b) change my zero to OFF, which I'm reluctant to do for the entire routine because that would change everything, so I'd have to set it off and back on around every single compute statement, and there's alot of them. Speed: Couldn't get a good comparison. Everything I tried took either 1 or 2 seconds and they switched back and forth, so I'm guessing it was "rounding". Seems like they're about equal in speed. BTW: these are two of the lookup-type of variable gathering commands that are in my monster cursor program. The first table AgtComm has 4 million rows, with RecDate indexed. However, it usually (not always) looks at just one month's worth of data, which is usually around 55,000 rows. So I can pull that 55,000 rows into a temp table to see if it speeds up. Karen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
