Re: slow cursor

This is one thing that I always try to avoid, a single INSERT INTO...SELECT
...FROM or single UPDATE is always faster compared to looping the same
within a cursor, unless its inevitable.

regards,
Luckys.

On 4/17/06, Sriram Dandapani <sdandapani(at)counterpane(dot)com> wrote:
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> I have a cursor that fetches 150K rows and updates or inserts a table with
> 150K rows.
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> It takes several minutes for the process to complete (about 15 minutes).
> The select by itself (without cursor) gets all rows in 15 seconds.
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> Is there a way to optimize the cursor to fetch all records and speed up
> the process. I still need to do the record by record processing
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