On 21-Jun-01 Chris Petersen wrote:
> Why not do something like:
>
> my $q = "DELETE FROM master WHERE master_id NOT IN (";
> $q .= join(',', @masteridarray);
> $q .= ')';
> $dbi_dbh->do($q);
>
> Though this will obviously fall into the same size limitations that you were
> doing, but it should execute a lot faster, and be a bit smaller than your
> example. (I don't have an answer for this, being rather new to the mysql
> community myself).
>
here, @ids is the array, delete in chunks of 64:
while ( my(@id)= splice(@ids,0,64)) {
$qry="DELETE FROM master WHERE master_id in (".join(',',@id).")";
SQLQuery($qry);
}
Adjust '64' as needed..
Regards,
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