>>Hi,
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>>I have a case where I need to select records when one of three integer fields equals to some set value. For example, say table has fields Fld1 (Int), Fld2 (int), Fld3 (int). I want to find all records where a one of the fields has value nNumber. So the way I could do it as:
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>>select * from MyTable where Fld1 = nNumber or Fld2 = nNumber or Fld3 = nNumber
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>>Is there a faster approach that would hopefully work in both VFP and SQL Server? Note that the table has an index on Fld1, and Fld2, and Fld3.
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>>TIA.
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>One alternative (just a shorter syntax):
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>select * from myTable where nNumber IN (Fld1, Fld2, Fld3).
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>They will behave the same as your original code, just a shorter code.
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>There is no faster approach for this problem.
Thank you.
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