Re: continuous copy/update one table to another

Terry wrote:
> One more question.  This is a pretty decent sized table.  It is
> estimated to be 19,038,200 rows.  That said, should I see results
> immediately pouring into the destination table while this is running?
>   

SQL transactions are atomic.   you wont' see anything in the 'new' table 
until the INSERT finishes committing, then you'll see it all at once.

you will see a fair amount of disk write activity while its running.   
20M rows will take a while to run the first time, and probably a fair 
amount of memory.