>>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 thing that comes to mind is that, if you have three fields with the same type of information, you might be better off storing the information in a single field, and in separate records (perhaps in another table). This is basic data normalization, but of course, I don't know exactly what information your fields hold.
You are right, in general, that this situation would be better off normalized. But my case is very simple. The number of records in the table where there are these three integer field will be, maybe in 100s. Or even few. And at most will probably go to 1000 records. So to simplify, I keep them all in one table.
Thank you.
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