>I have a table of voter info called Farmers with 92K rows in it. I also have a table of voters called tblCamp_CT with 9 million rows. I added a column to tblCamp_CT called 'IsFarmer' TINYINT.
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>I now need to go through the Farmers table and for every row find the person in the tblCamp_CT using First Name, Last Name, Middle Name, and maybe some other info. If that person exists in the tblCamp_CT table, then set IsFarmer to 1.
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>Wat's the best way to do something like this?
WHILE (2 > 1)
BEGIN
BEGIN TRANSACTION
UPDATE TOP ( 10000 ) tblCamp_CT SET isFarmer = 1
FROM tblCamp
INNER JOIN Farmers ON ....
WHERE tblCamp.isFarmer = 0
IF @@ROWCOUNT = 0
BEGIN
COMMIT TRANSACTION
BREAK
END
COMMIT TRANSACTION
END
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