It looks like LIKE is only slightly faster(on my XP), hardly worth
mentioning. Go with what is easier for you to read or for portability if
you need it. IMHO
set @a='gfdueruie baz hdhrh';select BENCHMARK(500, (select 1 from
dual WHERE @a LIKE '%foo%' OR @a LIKE '%bar%' OR @a LIKE '%baz%')) as
Hi,
On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 08:42, destr0 wrote:
whigh one is faster?
REGEXP or LIKE?
LIKE is an SQL language construct, REGEXP is a function.
LIKE only uses two simple wildcards (_ and *). Provided your LIKE
pattern does not start with a wildcard, the server will be able to use
an index for
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:42:46PM -0800, destr0 wrote:
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whigh one is faster?
REGEXP or LIKE?
LIKE is generally faster. But LIKE can't do everything that REGEXP
can, so that's probably no surprise.
Jeremy
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