13 Rolling Back Tables
- Chris Welford
- Anthony George
- Fiona Sargeant (Unlicensed)
Owned by Chris Welford
By the end of this chapter you will be able to:
- Rollback several tables at once
- Rollback and re-do from the Console
- Rollback a single Recordset (a run)
Rollback several Tables at once
This method of rollback is generally used when developing and performing a lot of test analysis runs with data that you do not need to keep:
- Open the model
Channel Package Check
- Keeping your left mouse button pressed down, drag your cursor over all the tables in your model – it doesn't matter if you include other components.
- All tables and any other components you included should now be highlighted.
- Right-click anywhere in the model window, but not on any modelling component, to display the context menu.
- From the menu select Rollback Selected Objects.
- Roll back the tables using the options:
- Rollback all data
- Untick Keep Old Recordsets
- A log entry will be produced telling you what data has been cleared. In this case, all data in all selected components in the model.
Rolling back (and re-running) from the Console
This method of rollback is generally used when testing – in particular, when a run was only partially successful, but you have changed the rules in the parts of the model that were successful (so you want to re-load these).
- Open the model
Channel Package Check
- Run the table
Channel List Reconciliation
- Open the System Console from the Administrator menu → System → Console
- Find the log for the analysis run
- Click on this entry
- In the bottom section, click on the Recordsets tab.
- You will find two buttons:
- Rollback all data...
- - Rollback data and run the analysis again...
Use the button Rollback data and run the analysis again... to repeat the analysis run from the previous exercise.
Rollback a single table set (a run)
This method of rollback is commonly used when testing a large model. If a single component has been updated and you want to re-run it without causing the rest of the model to re-run, then this approach is suitable.
- Open the model
Channel Package Check
- Right-click on
Latest Package Update
- Select Rollback.
- Accept the default options (the Keep Old Recordsets flag is ticked)
- When the rollback has completed, look at the table set list for this table – you will see a single Recordset (the most recent one) is yellow
- Run analysis on this table.
- The yellow (incomplete) Recordsets will be rebuilt – but this run will not cause any of the table's predecessors to run.