Re: MERGE: performance advices

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 4:19 AM, Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
 wrote:


> insert into d (pk, c1, c2, ...) select pk, c1, c2, c3 from s
>  where s.pk not in (select pk from d);

This insert statement might be faster:

INSERT INTO d (pk, c1, c2, ... )
SELECT pk, c1, c2, ...
  FROM s
LEFT JOIN d ON s.pk = d.pk
WHERE d.pk IS NULL;


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