Doh, sorry - you're completely correct! Silly me...
Can you not add a serial or sequence column to the table for the purposes of the de-dupe?
Then create an index on that column in one operation at the end and use that in the way that you would use Oracle's rowid from the examples?
John Sidney-Woollett
Clodoaldo Pinto wrote:
On Fri, 04 Feb 2005 07:38:26 +0000, John Sidney-Woollett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can you not use your table's primary key value instead?
John, If a primary key existed there would be no duplicates.
The row insertion is made in 650k rows batches 8 times a day and a
primary key make it very slow.
Found also methods 2 and 3 in
http://www.orafaq.com/faq/Server_Utilities/SQL/faq55.htm
Method 3 also relies in the row id. If no one can help I will do this:
Insert the distinct rows in a temporary table. Drop the index. Insert into the original from the temporary.
Clodoaldo
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