RE: Multi-tasking to reduce time

Srikanth, 

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3. I tried commiting every 2nd record, this saved me about 2 to 3 minutes. I
then tried commit after every 5th transaction, this saved me about 8
minutes. This is a big time saver, I have requested for a signoff to
implement this idea.
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One of the things you may want to include in option 3 is a savepoint. After
every transaction has processed, where you would normally have had a commit,
create a savepoint. Like this:

C/exec sql
C+ savepoint nameOfSavePoint on rollback retain cursors
C/end-exec 

This prevents you from having to roll back all of the transactions sence the
last commit, it stops at the last savepoint at which point you can commit
the previous transactions.

You should invistigate the savepoint capabilities further in the sql manuals
for the options you need.

Psudo-code of savepoint processing. This code should be placed where your
commit would normally occur. 

if transaction valid
if count > commit transaction count
commit

else
savepoint
count += 1
endif

else
roll back to last savepoint
commit 
count = 0
endif

Duane Christen



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