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  1. #11
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    Originally posted by mber
    The first one is more efficient, not fuction call overhead.

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    Wrong, the second one is more efficient!

    Remember that MOD is a built-in function, it will require no more of procesor's time as incrementing a variable! None of those two two operations will require more than one processor tick (is this the right term for granularity of processor's time in which a single instruction can be executed?).

    But on 200 M row table and commiting every 1.000 records, the variant with the explicit counter variable will have to execute "v_help := 0;" 200.000 times! This is overhead!

    In any case, I don't belive the difference in the performance on either two cases will be mesurable at all! The point is, the use of %ROWCOUNT is much less error-prone than maintaining a special variable for this. I'm sure somewhere in the cours of our PL/SQL careers every one of us have made the same error as both posters of PL/SQL code have made - to forget to reset the counter. With MOD() and %ROWCOUNT you simply can't forget, as there is nothing to reset.
    Jurij Modic
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    thank you jmodic. it was very interesting to read.

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    In my defence, I didn't forget to reset the counter, I had copied the code from the person above only to show how a CURSOR ... FOR ... LOOP works. I still am of the opinion that the SQL COPY command is the best option but I am open to being shot down in flames.

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    Originally posted by m1l
    In my defence, I didn't forget to reset the counter, I had copied the code from the person above only to show how a CURSOR ... FOR ... LOOP works. I still am of the opinion that the SQL COPY command is the best option but I am open to being shot down in flames.
    I agrea with you about the COPY command and it's efficiency and usefullness. However it has one limitation: it is only a SQL*Plus command (not a SQL command, as you said), so you can execute it only from SQL*Plus. This is pretty severe limitation, mybe not in this particular case, but in general.
    Jurij Modic
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