Re: Creating Logicals before or after populating a file ?

[joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Evan, The IBM Teraplex Center has online docs on loading data, try this
link.
http://www.softmall.ibm.com/as400/bi/teraplex/lessons.html#load

Option 1, deleting the logicals and rebuilding them is the fastest.

Joel Belcher, Ohana Design Group
joel@ohanagroup.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Evan Harris <spanner@ihug.co.nz>
To: midrange-l@midrange.com <midrange-l@midrange.com>
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 9:01 PM
Subject: Creating Logicals before or after populating a file ?


>
>We are about to embark on an exercise that will populate a *large*
>database file (40 million records plus). This file has about 20 logical
>files built over it.
>
>My question is, which is more efficient:
>
>1. Populating the file and building the logicals ?
>
>2. Building the logicals and populating the file ?
>
>Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Cheers,
>Evan Harris
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