Re: Fastest way to delete records.

Cindy, Jim,

This might be one of those 'it depends' kind of situations.  Depending on the
number of records that would be selected, it may take longer to build the 
logical
than the benefit that may be gained.

For example, since it is February, 2001 and if the entries to be deleted are ALL
year 2000, the majority of the records are subject to delete.  In this case it
may be faster if the file can be processed sequentially.  Ideally, processed 
with
an OPNQRYF front end to do the filtering which would be faster than having RPG 
do
the filtering and avoid locking every record in the process.

Having said all of that, if the file contains 2001 and the past 10 years and you
want to remove just one year, I would still use OPNQRYF if the file can be
processed sequentially.  The time it takes OPNQRYF to read the entire file to do
the filtering, I imagine, would be less time than CRTLF would take to read the
entire file, filter -and- build a permanent index.

MHO

Cindy Hudson wrote:

> That's exactly what I was going to write.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of Jim Langston

>
> Hmm...
> create a logical on the time stamp.
>
> Open Combined Full procedural this file
> Do while not LR
>   if  TimeStamp <= ToTimeStamp
>   Delete  Record
>   else
>   SetOn LR
>   EndIf
> End Do
>
> Can anyone think of a faster way?
>

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