You might want to try:

WHERE mycolumn in (1, 3, 23, ...)

Or even better, put your thousand records into a temporary table and then just do a 
join.

--jfarr

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Subject: How many OR, AND in a query?


> Hi,
> How many OR or AND can I put in a select query statement?
> ex:
> " WHERE mycolumn = 1 OR mycolumn = 3 OR mycolumn = 23   etc . . . "
> 
> A thousand? How would that affect the database execution time?
> 
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