Re: Housekeeping

[Glenn Ericson <Glenn-Ericson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Have you though about  looking to  optimize your database?

At 10:33 AM 9/17/2002 +0400, Suresh K wrote:
>All files in the system are journalled. There are about 12 transaction
>files. Main transaction file has 7-8 million records per month. The
>requirement is to move the monthly transaction data to the archives and
>delete from the transaction files.
>
>The data movement and deletion are done through RPG program under
>commitment control. Initially there was no logical file based on date.
>When the program ran it took 7hrs to move&delete 5 million records.
>Tried the same by SQLRPG also. With commit it takes the same time.
>
>Now following changes are done to improve performance.(Time taken
>reduced by about 50%)
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>     1. Logical file based on date.
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>     2. Instead of committing after each pair of insert and delete, a
>block of 1000 changes are committed.
>
>What more can be done to optimize? RPG or SQLRPG is better for this?
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