Re: to copy a record

On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:50:29PM -0700, Jay O'Connor wrote:
> On 2003.06.04 12:48 Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > SELECT * INTO TEMP temp_table FROM blah;
> > UPDATE temp_table SET field = newvalue;
> > INSERT INTO blah SELECT * FROM temp_table;
>
>
> Looks sweet. Much simpler what I was doing, too

BTW (I should have mentioned this originally), this will surely be much
slower than doing a SELECT INTO and specifying the fields individually,
because off the overhead of 2 additional queries, as well as creating
the temporary table.
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