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  • Subject: RE: Creating Logicals before or after populating a file ?
  • From: "Bartrug, James" <JBartrug@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 11:05:39 -0500

Number one is the most efficient method.

James Bartrug
JMB Consulting
jmbco@cyberramp.net

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Evan Harris [SMTP:spanner@ihug.co.nz]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 8:09 PM
> To:   midrange-l@midrange.com
> 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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