Quoth jorgemal1960(at)gmail(dot)com (JORGE MALDONADO):
>
> I am building an UPDATE query at run-time and one of the fields I want to
> include in the WHERE condition may repeat several times, I do not know how
> many.
>
> UPDATE table1
> SET field1 = "some value"
> WHERE (field2 = value_1 OR field2 = value_2 OR .....OR field2 = value_n)
>
> I build such a query using a programming language and, after that, I
> execute it. Is this a good approach to build such a query?
You can use IN for this:
UPDATE table1
SET field1 = "some value"
WHERE field2 IN (value_1, value_2, ...);
Ben