Eric Jain wrote: > I can't get the following statement to complete with reasonable time. > I've had it running for over ten hours without getting anywhere. I > suspect (hope) there may be a better way to accomplish what I'm trying > to do (set fields containing unique values to null):
[...] > Using EXISTS rather than IN (I'm using 7.4-RC2, not sure if IN queries > were already improved in this release): > > UPDATE requests > SET session = NULL > WHERE NOT EXISTS > ( > SELECT r.session > FROM requests r > WHERE > r.session = session > AND NOT r.id = id > ); I suppose you could try: UPDATE requests SET session = NULL WHERE EXISTS ( SELECT r.session FROM requests r WHERE r.session = session GROUP BY r.session HAVING count(*) = 1 ); but I don't know that you'll get much different results than your version. -- Kevin Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]