> > but how are you searching through your table with sql, when your SELECT > > is against a collection of different elements (e.g. Array of Strings, > > which should fit on one column and return all records which fit) > > Are the 'a', 'b', etc... fixed or generated on the fly? I'm not sure > that the plan for a thousand OR clauses (or equivalently a thousand > entries in a static IN) is going to necessarily be terribly good. You > might have better luck setting it up to do a join with a table (possibly a > temporary table if they're generated on the fly).
Generated "on the fly" by JDBC within Java ;-) I already tried the join, but it takes ages *g* ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])