<johnsw@wardbrook.com> wrote:
>
> Can you not add a serial or sequence column to the table for the
> purposes of the de-dupe?
>
> Then create an index on that column in one operation at the end and use
> that in the way that you would use Oracle's rowid from the examples?
Yes. It could work. I have a two hours window to do it. Creating the
index alone takes about one hour...
> Clodoaldo Pinto wrote:
>
> > Method 3 also relies in the row id. If no one can help I will do this:
> >
> > Insert the distinct rows in a temporary table. Drop the index. Insert
> > into the original from the temporary.
> >
How did i wrote it? The correct is:
Insert the distinct rows in a temporary table. Truncate the original.
Drop the index. Insert into the original from the temporary. Recreate
the index.
Clodoaldo
