On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Joseph Shraibman wrote:

> I want to select a boolean if there exists a row in another table that matches this 
>one. 
> So I did select ..., (select count(*) from table2 where ...) > 0 ...
> but that count(*) was taking forever.  I know there is a better way to do it, but 
>whenever 
> I try to use EXISTS I get a syntax error.  What is the proper way?

Hmm, on current sources I can do:
select ..., exists (select * from table2 where ...) from table1;

I don't know if that's new though...


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