RE: Fastest way to delete records.

Tried that, but it took about 30 minutes just to do the select and 20 
minutes to write 1 million of the selected records.

As first I need to write them to a new file before I delete them.  (forgot 
to mention that)

So I would have to use two different SQL statements.


I was hopeing to imporove on this time.


At 01:32 PM 2/7/01 -0800, you wrote:
>SQL or qmqry.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Quazy [mailto:quazy@SoftHome.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 1:04 PM
> > To: rpg400-l@midrange.com
> > Subject: Fastest way to delete records.
> >
> >
> > I have a file with about 10 million records.  It is keyed on
> > Company #,
> > Employee #, and Time stamp.
> >
> > I need to delete all records that have a time stamp before a
> > certain time
> > period.
> >
> > Any suggestions on the fastest approach?
> > Speed is a very important factor.
> >
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