Re: Alter Table Add Column - How Long to update

2006-10-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 09:06 -0700, William R. Mussatto wrote: On Thu, October 19, 2006 18:24, Ow Mun Heng said: Just curious to know, I tried to update a table with ~1.7 million rows (~1G in size) and the update took close to 15-20 minutes before it says it's done. Is this kind of speed

Re: Alter Table Add Column - How Long to update

2006-10-22 Thread 黄小聪
it says this is done so that other read processes can still access the DB/table in it's OLD state w/o any hiccups. I do not understand so how does the MSSQL DB work when we alter table add column* * 2006/10/22, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 09:06 -0700, William R.

Re: Alter Table Add Column - How Long to update

2006-10-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 21:32 +0800, 黄小聪 wrote: it says this is done so that other read processes can still access the DB/table in it's OLD state w/o any hiccups. I do not understand so how does the MSSQL DB work when we alter table add column Frankly, I don't really know. I tried adding a

Re: Alter Table Add Column - How Long to update

2006-10-20 Thread William R. Mussatto
On Thu, October 19, 2006 18:24, Ow Mun Heng said: Just curious to know, I tried to update a table with ~1.7 million rows (~1G in size) and the update took close to 15-20 minutes before it says it's done. Is this kind of speed expected? I don't really understand how the alter table add

Alter Table Add Column - How Long to update

2006-10-19 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Just curious to know, I tried to update a table with ~1.7 million rows (~1G in size) and the update took close to 15-20 minutes before it says it's done. Is this kind of speed expected? I don't really understand how the alter table add column is done, but when I look at the show processlist I

Alter Table Add Column - How Long to update?

2006-10-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Just curious to know, I tried to update a table with ~1.7 million rows (~1G in size) and the update took close to 15-20 minutes before it says it's done. Is this kind of speed expected? I don't really understand how the alter table add column is done, but when I look at the show processlist I

Re: Alter Table Add Column - How Long to update?

2006-10-17 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 09:29 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Just curious to know, I tried to update a table with ~1.7 million rows (~1G in size) and the update took close to 15-20 minutes before it says it's done. Is this kind of speed expected? I don't really understand how the alter table