Re: Update file definition with a LOT of records - best approach?

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Is the real issue that you want to find a faster approach, or that the
downtime while the conversion is happening exceeds the windows your
customers want to give you.  If it is the latter, one option is to
consider a product like TurnOver PDQ.  This lets you perform your data
conversions while users are still using the "old version".  Once all of
your data is converted, you only need to kick the users out long enough to
move out the old objects and move in the new ones or long enough to change
the library lists they use.

So the data conversion takes just as long as before, but the application
downtime is reduced to minutes, if not seconds.  The other benefit is if
there is an unexpected error in the conversion process, it never effected
the end users as they never had to get out of the application.  The
problem can be resolved and the process restarted.

http://www.softlanding.com/

Hope this helps.

Mark Phippard
Director of Development
SoftLanding Systems