In the last episode (Jul 22), Jan Peuker said:
> What I want to do is, select the 10(say, a value) nearest values to a
> given number. The easiest way would be "near 5" shows 1..10. The
> problem is, the number should affect rows, not values, because values
> are not unique nor in order. What I want to do is a query like
> "SELECT code FROM zip WHERE zip=12345 SURROUND 5,5" or "SURROUND 10".
> At the moment, I create a new table w/ an autoincrement and do a
> select...insert, then I select first the id and then id-5 and id+5.
> This a a) very slow and redundant b) afaik not very safe.
So what you really want is
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE tmp
SELECT code FROM mytable WHERE zip < 12345 ORDER BY zip DESC LIMIT 5;
INSERT INTO tmp
SELECT code FROM mytable WHERE zip = 12345;
INSERT INTO tmp
SELECT code FROM mytable WHERE zip > 12345 ORDER BY zip LIMIT 5;
SELECT code FROM tmp ORDER BY zip;
DROP TABLE tmp;
That will use the zip index, so it should run fast.
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Dan Nelson
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