Re: [SQL] SubQuery speed

At 16:45 +0200 on 8/9/98, andreas(dot)fredriksson(at)pacer(dot)se wrote:

> Are there any alternate methods of solving this? I don't think it's
> possible to write this kind of query using a multi-JOIN?

Why not? So long as the query is "in", and not "not in"?

Should be something like:

SELECT DISTINCT url,title
FROM idx_files, idx_ref, idx_words
WHERE idx_files.id = idx_ref.file_id
AND idx_ref.word_id = idx_words.id
AND (idx_words.word = 'search term 1' OR .. );

In any case, are there indices on the appropriate fields?

If the innermost query is supposed to return only one tuple, you should use
"=" rather than IN, although I don't know how much that adds. The optimizer
probably has an easier time with "=" than with IN.

Herouth

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