Thanks but 4 rows is not what I am looking for.
I found a solution, concatenation:
SELECT genres.genres,
       (
            SELECT  group_concat(movie,' ')
            FROM
            (
              SELECT    movies.movies||','||name movie
              FROM      movies

              JOIN      genres AS movie_genres
              ON        movies.movies = movie_genres.movies

              WHERE     movie_genres.genres = genres.genres

              ORDER BY  movies.name

              LIMIT     3
            )
        )

FROM      genres
GROUP BY  genres
ORDER BY  genres.genres;

Any clue on why LEFT JOIN is so slow when used with genres but not with
larger tables?



--
View this message in context: 
http://sqlite.1065341.n5.nabble.com/Please-help-me-optimize-this-LEFT-JOIN-query-tp71000p71040.html
Sent from the SQLite mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
_______________________________________________
sqlite-users mailing list
sqlite-users@sqlite.org
http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users

Reply via email to