Re: [firebird-support] Re: Update big table and nbackup benefit or not?

2016-04-05 Thread liviuslivius liviusliv...@poczta.onet.pl [firebird-support]
Karol, if you worry about database size after update, i could suggest to split huge update by few smaller, each in own transaction and garbage collect between passes. I.e. something like update t set ... where id between 0 and N; commit; select count(*) from t where id between 0 and N; commit;

[firebird-support] Re: Update big table and nbackup benefit or not?

2016-04-05 Thread hv...@users.sourceforge.net [firebird-support]
Karol, if you worry about database size after update, i could suggest to split huge update by few smaller, each in own transaction and garbage collect between passes. I.e. something like update t set ... where id between 0 and N; commit; select count(*) from t where id between 0 and N; commit;