Terry Lee Tucker <terry@esc1.com> writes:
> Hello List:
>
> I've been told that an update to a record is equivalent to a delete
> and insert operation. We have a utility written in Perl that brings
> into sync certain elements of 50 thousand records on 8 structurally
> identical databases. We threw together the script and decided to
> just delete the record and re-insert it with the data that was
> brought into sync. Now the question: Is it just as fast to do it
> this way, or is there some hidden advantage to performing an update?
UPDATE will probably be somewhat faster because it's only one SQL
statement to parse, plan and execute.
-Doug