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Creating blank records with sequential record numbers

Hello!

I'm pretty sure this is an easy thing to do but I cant still figure
out how. I have a table with about 20 columns, one column being the
record_number. I want to insert 100'000 new records with 1, 2, 3, 4
.... 100'000 in the record_number field. All the other columns can be
left at nulls or whatever the default is.

Right now I'm doing this using a "for" loop in my app. Not very fast
or smart

Any better ideas ?

Thanks

/Otto Blomqvist
Nov 23 '05 #1
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On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 12:55, Otto Blomqvist wrote:
Hello!

I'm pretty sure this is an easy thing to do but I cant still figure
out how. I have a table with about 20 columns, one column being the
record_number. I want to insert 100'000 new records with 1, 2, 3, 4
... 100'000 in the record_number field. All the other columns can be
left at nulls or whatever the default is.

Right now I'm doing this using a "for" loop in my app. Not very fast
or smart

Any better ideas ?


As long as you're wrapping it all into one big transaction, you're fine
using a for next loop. Sure, you could probably write a pl function to
do it, but I can't see it being worth the development effort if you've
already got a script doing it.


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