If you use just 1 OR you will force a table scan and slow everything down ?
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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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