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On 03/29/07 14:51, Benjamin Arai wrote:
> I would prefer not to drop the index because the database is several
> hundred gigs.  I would prefer to incrementally add to the index.

Some RDBMSs (well, one that I know of) has the ability to defer
index updates during data load, and it actually works very well.

The down side is that if there's a unique value constraint failure,
you don't know which record it failed on.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!

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