Kevin's approach is much cleaner. If you have so many OR statements in a query then
Kevin's approach saves lots of string to be parsed by MySQL's query processor.
Thanks,
Hardik
Kevin Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Paul,
You can do the following:
SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE columname IN
Paul,
You can do the following:
SELECT * FROM tablename WHERE columname IN ('Bob','Mike','Betty');
Kevin
-Original Message-
From: Paul Fine [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 3:01 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Another newbie question - using OR in WHERE
on 7/23/04 3:00 PM, Paul Fine at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SELECT * FROM tablename
WHERE columname = 'Bob' OR columname = 'Mike' OR columname = 'Betty'
This is perfectly accurate
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Scott Haneda
