THeo,
> I have tried using unions or subselects however the table is quite large
> and it takes far too long to run. The most efficient way would be to create
> a stored proc that uses a cursor to loop through the table transforming the
> data into the new table structure. However I would appreciate your feeback
> before writing this procedure?
A proc won't run any faster ... much slower, in fact. Unless you mean that
you want to use it to correct the actual table structure, which is what you
should be doing?
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--Josh
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco
