Hello all,
Consider a scenario in which a form with several editable elements are shown to the User. This form has a save button. Now the User makes some changes and clicks on the save button. The usual practise is to save all the elements (rather than the changed ones). I have heard that its a better practice to save only the modified changes. But this approach has several difficulties :
1. Need to detect a change and which element has changed.
2. We will have to use dynamic Queries.
3. Since the Queries are dynamic i will have to use
Java Statement objects rather than Prepared Statements.
Please give your thoughts on this. Is is always advisable to update only the modified field? Now that my Update Query keeps changing, will that not have a negative impact that i cannot have the Query parsed and the Query plan ready, since each query will be a new one (in most cases).
Please give your thoughts on this. Is it actually worth Updating only modified fields??
Thanks,
Sajee Joseph