Sounds like a self join should work wonders. 

I didn't test this, but the idea should work:


select t1.app_id as a1, t2.app_id as a2, t2.word, t2.score 
from tablename as t1 
left join tablename as t2
on t1.resource_id = t2.resource_id and t1.app_id != t2.app_id
group by word
order by word

voila, no temp tables. Am I missing something? 

-Micah 

On Thursday 10 February 2005 07:56 pm, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> I have a table which contains the following:
>     id (primary key, auto incrementing)
>     app_id (integer, foreign key)
>     resource_id (integer, foreign key)
>     word
>     score
>
> (This is a search index.) I want to find all resource_ids from one app_id
> that match resource_ids in another app_id by word.
>
> I have created a temporary table 'tmp1' that contains all resource_ids
> from the second app_id (the one whose resources I wish to retrieve). I
> am then looping through all resource_ids in the main table with the
> first app_id, and doing the following:
>
>     * Creating a temporary table tmp2 with a single column 'word'
>       populated by the words associated with resource_id in the main
>       table
>     * Selecting all distinct resource_ids from tmp1 INNER JOIN'd on tmp2
>       on the word field
>
> The issues I'm running into are that (1) each resource_id cycle takes a
> good amount of time, and (2) I seem to be getting either too many
> resource_ids or not enough.
>
> (1) may be something I just have to deal with. As it is, I'm planning on
> running the full indexing once, and then doing incremental updates, so
> it may not be that big of an issue (unless it takes too much time to
> create the initial index). As for (2), unfortunately, I'm not sur ehow
> to really trouble shoot the issue. I know, for instance, that in once
> case, I have a list of 343 words that generates a list of ~12,000
> resource_ids (of a possible 18,000) -- but I don't quite know how to
> spot check 300 values to be certain that this is reasonable.
>
> In a previous incarnation of the script, I was looping through each word
> of each resource_id and then selecting out of tmp1 based on the single
> word value. The results were very different (very few matches), and,
> again, the script ran long.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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