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 WHERE IN clause and Indexes

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baranozgul
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20 Posts

Posted - 2005-04-18 : 03:02:56
Do I need to avoid
WHERE IN
clauses to make sure a query uses indexes?


Kristen
Test

22859 Posts

Posted - 2005-04-18 : 07:38:10
Not necessarily, but if you have the "IN" values in another table, possibly a temporary table, you could just JOIN that to your main query table(s), and you might find that that was quicker.

Kristen
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