to move the
record to archive_table and add in two more fields?
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From: darren [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:44 PM
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Subject: moving records between tables?
Hi all,
I have 2 tables...one for keeping active items while
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Hi all,
I have 2 tables...one for keeping active items while the other is for older
records.
A housekeep program will come in every night to move some records (matching
several criteria from the active table to the history one.
I am currently doing SELECT, INSERT and then DELETE. i.e. a select
darren wrote:
Hi all,
I have 2 tables...one for keeping active items while the other is for older
records.
A housekeep program will come in every night to move some records (matching
several criteria from the active table to the history one.
I am currently doing SELECT, INSERT and then DELETE.
LOCK TABLE active_table WRITE, history_table WRITE;
#assuming the columns in the tables are exactly
#the same
insert into history_table
select * from active_table;
delete from active_table;
UNLOCK TABLES;
if the columns aren't the same between the tables then
you need to do something like
