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I want to update a table , the RDBMS used is the the Sybase ASE 15. Because the table contains almost 1 million rows , and i have to run this update in Production environment, i want to update and commit every 10000 rows.I do not have experience in Sysbase. Can anyone help me, if possible putting some code example

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Having said the above, if I were writing such a program I would simply keep a count of the number of inserts/updates (or bulk inserts/updates since that would be more efficient) and issue a commit every N rows (N equal to 10000 in your case if you are issuing 1 insert/update per request... or 10000/x if you are issuing bulk inserts/updates of x per request).

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answered 10 Sep '13, 15:29

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edited 10 Sep '13, 15:35

In case you want to make your update via plain SQL and you can distinguish "already updated" and "still to be updated" rows by a simple condition, a simple loop with a UPDATE TOP statement comes handy, such as:

lbl:
LOOP
   UPDATE 10000 YourTable SET ... WHERE <not already modified>;
   IF @@ROWCOUNT < 10000 THEN
      LEAVE lbl;
   END IF;
   COMMIT;
END LOOP lbl;
COMMIT;

Note: This is in SQL Anywhere Watcom-SQL syntax, however, AFAIK, ASE does support UPDATE TOP..., too, so this could be adapted to T-SQL syntax.

(11 Sep '13, 03:59) Volker Barth
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Sorry, it should read "UPDATE TOP 10000 ...", and I should not post untested code:(

(11 Sep '13, 08:47) Volker Barth
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