Hi Naomi,

I believe the first is marginally faster. I could be wrong, but I think I remember that there's a lot more processing going on with an INSERT due to VARCHARMAPPING and other late changes.

Shame I don't have source code access anymore :-)


>Hi everybody,
>
>I'm wondering what is better and faster:
>

>select Table1
>scatter memvar
>FieldFK = something
>PointerField = something
>release cEntered_User, tEntered_Date
>insert into Table2 from memvar
>
>or
>
>insert into Table2 (field1, field2, fieldN,...) ;
>values ;
>(Val1,Val2, Table1.fieldN,...)

>
>I switched from the first to the second, but it doesn't look like I gain a speed increase. I did multiple other changes, so it's hard to compare original code with the new code. But anyway, what do you think?
>
>Thanks in advance.