Hi, If you expect a lot of misses with that approach then enable bloom filters on the second table for fast lookups of misses.
Lars On Mar 11, 2011, at 9:44, Amandeep Khurana <ama...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can scan through one table and see if the other one has those rowids or > not. > > On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Vishal Kapoor > <vishal.kapoor...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Friends, >> how do I best achieve intersection of sets of row ids >> suppose I have two tables with similar row ids >> how can I get the row ids present in one and not in the other? >> does things get better if I have row ids as values in some qualifier/ >> qualifier itself? >> I hope the question is not too confusing... >> >> intersection of {1, 2, 3} and {2, 3, 4} is {2, 3}. >> while {1,2,3} are row ids from a table, {2,3,4} may come from other table >> as >> qualifiers in some row. >> >> thanks, >> Vishal >>