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[Mike Kerner]

I didn't include everything, including the transaction code, or opening the
database in memory instead of on a disk.  When we were messing with this,
the piece that became the (58 minute) bottleneck was inside the loop, or,
according to Peter, the way the chunks are accessed in the loop.

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Dr. Hawkins <dochawk at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:11 PM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
> wrote:
>
> > The following is very fast:
> > put "INSERT INTO sortTest VALUES :1" into tSQL
> > repeat for each line tLine in tDataSet
> >    revExecuteSQL dbid, tsql, tline
> > end repeat
> >
>
> Faster still would probably be to build a command in the loop.  Terminate
> each line with ";" & cr
>
> Then put "BEGIN TRANSACTION;" & cr   before it, and "END TRANSACTION;" &
> cr   after it, and execute as a single command.
>
> However, I haven't used the :1 type syntax, and just don't know if it can
> handle that.
>
> put "BEGIN TRANSACTION;" & cr into dcmd
> repeat for each line tline in tDataSet
> put "INSERT INTO sortTest <something>" & ";"& cr after dcmd
> put "END TRANSACTION;" & cr after dcmd
>
> revExecuteSQL dbid, tcmd
>
>
>
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