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- From: shemminga@cix.compulink.co.uk (Stuart Hemming)
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 13:26:00 +0000
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- UPDATE BY NAME
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- I was wondering if anyone else thought that having and update by name
- function (or insert by name) would be worth while. If enough did
- could we get Informix to at least consider it as an option.
-
- I often have to Insert/Update large tables, sometimes with the fields
- effected "spread" throughout the record. It is often the case that
- the THRU operator cannont be efficiently used because of the
- seperation of the fields in the record.
-
- If, when working in 4GL, I could just:
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- DEFINE rec RECORD LIKE big_record
- .
- .
- .
- UPDATE big_record BY NAME
- SET rec.field_1, rec.field_10....
-
- this would be much quicker.
-
- On the face of it I can't see why it *couldn't* be done. All of the
- existing restrictions would still apply and things like
- UPDATE..SET..WHERE should still work.
-
- What does the panel think?
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