Just to point out the obvious, have you tried ORDER BY? "SELECT name FROM table ORDER BY name;" will return your list in alphabetical order.
/Jonas On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Andrew Gatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Gatt wrote: >> I'm not sure if i'm missing something, but is there an efficient way of >> retrieving multiple rows based on different conditions in order. For >> example i have a table with rows of ids, i want to select multiple rows >> at a time. At present i am doing a "SELECT name FROM table WHERE id = x" >> for each row i want and then stitching it all together. But i'm finding >> this is quite slow even on a moderately small database (2000 entries). >> >> I'm guessing my SQL is the worst way of doing things so i've been trying >> to find a better method. I stumbled across "SELECT name FROM table WHERE >> id IN (x,y,z) however this doesn't allow me to specify the order the >> rows are returned, which i must have. >> >> The only other option i can find is using UNION ALL in between multiple >> SELECT statements, but would this give me a large performance increase >> over doing this progammatically as i've got it? >> >> Unless i've missed something obvious which could well be the case! >> >> >> > After trying several methods to improve the SQL the only thing that > really made a difference was creating an index on the ids. Using a UNION > ALL did improve matters, but you end up have to concatenate a very long > string for the query, so if anyone does have any SQL ideas i'd like to > hear them. > > Andrew > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@sqlite.org > http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
