I'm sorry, I just realized that I read your message too fast, and answered
a question that you weren't asking. Unfortunately I don't know the answer
to your real question.

Sorry again,

Bill

On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Rick Roen wrote:

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> I was trying to track the internal progress of a SP that was running
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> I created an external table, then wrote to the table at various
> points from within the SP and updated using CURRENT_TIME and a note
> field. Of course, as I later learned from the documentation the
> CURRENT_TIME was set at the beginning of the SP and never
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> I finally figured out what was causing the slow processing, but I
> would like to know for the future if something like this is
> possible. I tried to Google, but only got information as to why it
> doesn't work.
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> Is there any way to get a real CURRENT_TIME from within a SP?
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> Thanks,
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> Rick
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