Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/23/05 21:21

heromull (heromull@gmail.com) writes:
> Thanks, the data to select for processing is not time based, it's based
> on whatever tables a customer has data in at the time of processing,
> which is determined by the customer. So, option three would be the
> best and is similar to our current process.

Not that see what time has to do with it. I did say timestamp, but
the timestamp datatype has nothing to do with time. Then again, if you
already have a process similar to option three, then go with that.

> Also, the data is not updated by the processing, only selected. Even
> with a table that tells us which tables have data, how would we build
> the select statement(s) to only include those tables with data?

I can not say that. I don't know your tables. I don't know in which context
this process runs etc. I would assume that since there are 200 tables,
that you would have a stored procedure or a SELECT statement for that
table, as I would assume that all tables would generally have a different
set of columns. If they all have the same schema, then there is a strong
indication of that you should have one single table.


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