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I think I found my answer in
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r4/topic/rzajq/rzajq.pdf
Under "Control database manager blocking"

"The SQL run-time automatically blocks rows with the database manager in the following cases:
INSERT
If an INSERT statement contains a select-statement, inserted rows are blocked and not actually inserted
into the target table until the block is full. The SQL run-time automatically does blocking for blocked
inserts.
Note: If an INSERT with a VALUES clause is specified, the SQL run-time might not actually close the
internal cursor that is used to perform the inserts until the program ends. If the same INSERT"

So it sounds like in my case, where I'd be doing inserts using Values, that blocking wouldn't really be occurring. I'm not sure how to interpret the bit about the internal cursor.

However it does say we can control blocking by using OVRDBF and SEQONLY - which we actually currently do. So if it obeys the override in term of blocking the write, then I should be set.

Ultimately I could run a test of a huge number of records, so I figure I'll get that on my to-do list.

-Kurt


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Subject: Multiple Inserts - does block writing occur?

Continuing down the SQL path...

If I execute 100 individual insert statements to a table (no commitment control), does the system insert each record out individually, or does blocked inserting occur?

A little background:
We receive files with all sorts of layouts, and we mediate them and output them to our standard file. The mediation programs have a lot of similarities, and I have moved most of those similarities into service programs. However one thing they all still share is that each program is writing to the standard file. I'd like to encapsulate that standard file. In doing so, I'd like to use SQL to write the records, but I can't sacrifice blocked writing due to the high volume of transactions.

I'm aware of inserting multiple rows in one statement using arrays, however I don't want to attempt to control the number of records the system should write out at once. In addition, there will already be an element of complexity using arrays because one incoming record may result in more than one standard record (so doing a blocked insert for that situation would be fine).

I'm on IBM i 7.1.

Thanks,
Kurt Anderson
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
CustomCall Data Systems, a division of Enghouse Systems Ltd.
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