Greetings experts,

I have an sql search that requires 'OR' search on two different _fields_
eg. (Sun -- Sybase databases)
select f1, f2, ..., fn
from tableA, tableB
where (tableA.fld_1 = 'abc' OR tableA.fld_2 = 'abc')
and tableA.fld_i = tableB.fld_j

Without OR, it takes 1 sec to get data from tableA with 500,000 records.
With OR, it takes almost 15 - 20 seconds even though both of the search
fields are indexed.

Is there a way to speed up this search?
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Another question... what is the difference between WHERE and HAVING?
select ... from ... where ...
select ... from ... having ...
They're both used for searching, is there any need to use one or the other?

Thank you for your help.
P.S. I would appreciate if you CC your reply to my email: rlyudmirsky (AT) abac (DOT) com
Thanks.
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The classic trick is to split such a query into two parts and connect
these in a union:

select f1, f2, ..., fn from tableA, tableB
where tableA.fld_1 = 'abc' and tableA.fld_i = tableB.fld_j
union
select f1, f2, ..., fn from tableA, tableB
where tableA.fld_2 = 'abc' and tableA.fld_i = tableB.fld_j

Each of these queries will be optimised separately. The assumption is
that each individual query will be fast, but due to the OR, a less
efficient query plan is chosen (often a table scan). When splitting it
into two queries as above, we'd therefore hope to see improved
performance.

HTH,

Rob
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and Replication Server 12.5

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"Rostislav Lyudmirsky" <rlyudmirsky (AT) abac (DOT) com> wrote

"Rob Verschoor" <rob (AT) DO (DOT) NOT.SPAM.sypron.nl.REMOVE.THIS.DECOY> wrote
in news:3fe72774$0$64977$1b62eedf (AT) news (DOT) euronet.nl:

Just to add to Rob's point, read up on the difference between UNION
and UNION ALL. If you can avoid the de-duplication phase, you're that
much further along.

Thx!
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Pablo Sanchez - Blueoak Database Engineering, Inc
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