> If I'm understanding it correctly, you just have a full name in the import > model and broken out first and last names in your contact model.
I may have not explained the setup properly. I don't actually have a "full_name" field in either table (import_contacts and contacts are the actual MySQL table names). Each of these tables have "fn" and "ln" fields, however. So the problem is that I need to somehow find all records in the contacts table which have the same values in the "fn" and "ln" fields as the import_contacts table. > Hmm. Is there a way you could make them directly correlate? It's a > pretty fast DB query if you can get them to line up. The only idea I have at the moment is to create a field in both tables which simply stores the concatenated value of a record's "fn" and "ln" fields. This would require me to write a script to retro-fit the existing 30k contact records, as well as update some logic in my "add contact" controller. Not to mention this would also create a redundant field in the table and still doesn't ultimately solve the problem because what if in the future I want to find duplicates matching "fn", "ln" and "mi" (middle initial)? I would have to create yet another "dummy" field in my table. > The beauty of doing the heavy lifting in SQL, even if you can't do it > in the ORM, is that you only have to bring the matches across the > wire. So instead of a minimum of 30,000 records coming out of the DB > (and each getting messed around with Cake's ORM) you get only the > dupes. Oh I hear you on this one :) Once I realized I *couldn't* do it with SQL I was quite bummed! Of course, maybe there's still a way... - Kevin --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Cake PHP" group. To post to this group, send email to cake-php@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
