I figure out a better solution than the two I initially proposed: Create a temp table to put the image names into and then use a left outer join to get the answer.
Sam On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Sam Carleton <scarle...@miltonstreet.com>wrote: > Here is my situation: > > I have a SQLite table that has a customer id, the folder id, and the image > id (filename). This is a favorites table, so for a given customer and > folder, there is going to be a small set of images in the table. > > The operation is to scan the folder/directory on the HD for all the images > and return that list with a flag indicating if the image is in the favorites > table. > > The expectation is that for a given customer and folder there will be less > than 10 images selected. > > What would be faster, preparing the SELECT statement and running it for > every file found or getting all the images for that customer in that folder, > storing in a STL map and looking up the subset in the STL map? Or is it > such a small difference either will work? > > Sam > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
