Multiload will only let you update records when the Where clause contains all the primary index fields (and preferably primary key), so you will have to create a file with the primary key of every record to update.So assuming Table1 has Fields PK1 and Pk2, do a bteq export of:Select PK1,PK2 From DB.Table1Where Field1 = 1;The you can import these records to do the update with:Update DB.TABLE1SET FIELD1=703WHERE PK1 = :PK1 And PK2 = :PK2;Make sure there are no updates on the table between the export and import!If the table has 10M rows, but you only want to update a few thousand, I would go back to your DBA's and argue about bteq. It is not the size of the source, it is how many rows you update which causes the overhead.
Actually all of the records will be updated with this new value for FIELD1. Since this table is huge, I intend to use MultiLoad Update.
I have to Update only one field in the table with one valuea using MultiLoad (dont want to use BTEQ since DBA dislike to update table with >100k rows with BTEQ). For instance, SQL is following...Update DB.TABLE1SET FIELD1=703WHERE FIELD1=1;Now, i have done updates usnig field input, but never with one colum value. Do i have to treate this as file input and change SQL as below or is there any other way of doign it?Update DB.TABLE1SET FIELD1=:FIELD1WHERE FIELD1=1;