DB2 Conditional Delete Vs Load Replace

rockish · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 10:25 pm

Hello,

I have a Weekly job, which unloads an entire table for backup followed by a IKJEFT01 step that deletes the records that are older than an year. The delete step consumes high CPU than the unload step (18 minutes vs 34 seconds). I was wondering if replacing the delete step with a DB2 LOAD REPLACE to load the last year's data will help.

The table currently contains about 3.8 Million records and about 30K records are deleted weekly. The date field that is used in the WHERE clause is not a part of any index in the table.

It would really help if someone can provide some pointers to guide me if LOAD REPLACE can help reducing the CPU time consumed by IKJEFT01 DELETE SQL.

Rohit Umarjikar · Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2014 11:38 pm

rockish · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 12:02 am

I am already working with the DBA's to add the time field to the Index being used in this query. I was just trying to see if there could be other parallel options that can help reduce the CPU further.

Rohit Umarjikar · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 1:37 am

Great!!
Time being I think you can unload the table completely , use a sort to remove data which (older than oneyear) and then use this file and run LOAD REPLACE. Check for the CPU stats and let us know.

Terry Heinze · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 1:49 am

I've seen Rohit's method widely used in the shops I've worked at. Seems to be the quickest, especially with large tables. I suspect much of the CPU time is spent logging the deletes.

rockish · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 2:42 am

Thanks Rohit and Terry. I'll keep you posted with updates.

GuyC · Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 8:15 pm

reorg discard when date < current_date - 1 year