Re: Large select, best practice question

On 3/1/06 11:16 AM, "Bendik Rognlien Johansen" <bendik(dot)johansen(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hello,
> I have three tables (very simplified):
> - people (~6 million records)
> - addresses (~7 million records)
> - contacts (~10 million records)
>
> I need to select all records from the people table and join addresses
> and contacts on it. I use the result to build a Lucene index. One
> document for each person (including all contacts and addresses). I am
> using jdbc.
>
> When doing it this way, i end up with many more rows than people, and
> my application logic takes care of putting the correct address/
> contact with each person. To do this the records have to be sorted.
> (Takes a loong time) This causes a lot of very similar result rows.
> Example:
>
> John Smith has 2 phone numbers and 2 addresses
>
> John Smith | 555-67567 | Elm street 32
> John Smith | 555-83463 | Elm street 32
> John Smith | 555-83463 | P.O box 55
> John Smith | 555-67567 | P.O box 55
>
>
> This method is quite slow and error prone.
>
> Is there a more elegant solution to this problem?

What SQL are you using to do this? Should be a simple join on the tables?
Perhaps post your SQL here.

Sean