Can anyone help with predicting how long/how big a transaction log will be when updating 10 Million records

2012-01-09 Thread Bergquist, Brett
I have a database upgrade that is currently running at a customer site. Little did I know that their database table has between 10 and 11 million records. The upgrade is a updating one column with a fixed value. It is doing UPDATE WEEK_TABLE SET WEEK = 2 The column is a small integer.

RE: Can anyone help with predicting how long/how big a transaction log will be when updating 10 Million records

2012-01-09 Thread Bergquist, Brett
Got my own answer :) 1859 log files and 1 hour 45 minutes. Ouch, don't know if I will do that one again. From: Bergquist, Brett Sent: Monday, January 09, 2012 8:57 AM To: derby-dev@db.apache.org Subject: Can anyone help with predicting how long/how big

Re: Can anyone help with predicting how long/how big a transaction log will be when updating 10 Million records

2012-01-09 Thread Bryan Pendleton
I'm glad it completed successfully. You might want to put your experiences on the Derby hints and tips wiki. It could come in useful to somebody else in the future. bryan On 01/09/2012 06:40 AM, Bergquist, Brett wrote: Got my own answer :) 1859 log files and 1 hour 45 minutes. Ouch, don't