Ran a little test, I was curious as well. This was run against a table with
10,000 records.
Code is at the bottom.
LIKE avg time: 52ms
LEFT avg time: 55ms
Using <cfqueryparam> for the passed in value:
LIKE avg time: 5ms
LEFT avg time: 34ms
Matthew P. Smith
Web Developer, Object Oriented
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-------<!--- set our list to loop through --->
<CFSET AlphabetList = "A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z">
<cfset tickOne = getTickCount()>
<!--- loop thourgh the alphabet list 100 times --->
<cfloop from="1" to="100" index="i">
<cfloop list="#AlphabetList#" index="i">
<cfquery datasource="gots">
SELECT *
FROM tbl_smsTitles
WHERE app_full_name LIKE '#i#%'
</cfquery>
</cfloop>
</cfloop>
<cfset tickTwo = getTickCount()>
<!--- compute and output the time it took --->
<cfset totalTime = int((tickTwo - tickOne)/2600)>
<cfoutput>LIKE:#totalTime#<br></cfoutput>
<cfset tickOne = getTickCount()>
<cfloop from="1" to="100" index="i">
<cfloop list="#AlphabetList#" index="i">
<cfquery datasource="gots">
SELECT *
FROM tbl_smsTitles
WHERE left(app_full_name,1) = '#i#'
</cfquery>
</cfloop>
</cfloop>
<cfset tickTwo = getTickCount()>
<cfset totalTime = int((tickTwo - tickOne)/2600)>
<cfoutput>LEFT:#totalTime#<br></cfoutput>
USING CFQUERYPARAM:<br>
<cfset tickOne = getTickCount()>
<cfloop from="1" to="100" index="i">
<cfloop list="#AlphabetList#" index="i">
<cfquery datasource="gots">
SELECT *
FROM tbl_smsTitles
WHERE app_full_name LIKE '<cfqueryparam
cfsqltype="CF_SQL_VARCHAR" value="#i#">%'
</cfquery>
</cfloop>
</cfloop>
<cfset tickTwo = getTickCount()>
<cfset totalTime = int((tickTwo - tickOne)/2600)>
<cfoutput>LIKE:#totalTime#<br></cfoutput>
<cfset tickOne = getTickCount()>
<cfloop from="1" to="100" index="i">
<cfloop list="#AlphabetList#" index="i">
<cfquery datasource="gots">
SELECT *
FROM tbl_smsTitles
WHERE left(app_full_name,1) = '<cfqueryparam
cfsqltype="CF_SQL_VARCHAR" value="#i#">'
</cfquery>
</cfloop>
</cfloop>
<cfset tickTwo = getTickCount()>
<cfset totalTime = int((tickTwo - tickOne)/2600)>
<cfoutput>LEFT:#totalTime#<br></cfoutput>
-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Schreiber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 9:16 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: SOT: Like vs. =
While I know that like is always slower, consider this:
WHERE left(description,1) = 'A'
OR
WHERE description LIKE 'A%'
Which would be faster?
Tony Schreiber, Senior Partner Man and Machine, Limited
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