Re: quickest query to check a table for existance of a value in a field

Hi

Thanks, just tried this on my dev box (650,000 rows, ~50,000 per ID), the
original way (COUNT()) takes ~1/2 second (guestimating), while your way is as
instant as I can tel..

Beauty :)

--
Shane

On Monday 25 Mar 2002 9:41 pm, chester c young wrote:
> > I want a quick way to find out if there are any rows matching a
> > specified value for this indexed field. I dont care how many there
> > are or what their properties are, just if there are any or not.
> >
> > SELECT COUNT(c2) AS num FROM mytable WHERE c2=1234;
> >
> > Thanks
> > Shane
>
> Try: select 1 as yes from mytable where c2=1234 limit 1;
> or: select 1 as yes where exists( select 1 from mytable where c2=1234
> );
>
> would be interesting to see differences in performance on your data
>
>
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