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in thread Use Placeholders. For SECURITY and (sometimes) for PERFORMANCE
This is actually a common case with columns like "status" on task-tracking or ticket-tracking systems.I wanted to see how Sybase handles this case, so I did the following little test with the text_events table, which is used by Sybase to track what rows in source tables need to be updated in a Verity Full-Text index.
Rows with event_status == 0 have to be processed, and there's an index on event_status.select count(*), event_status from text_events group by event_status; event_status ----------- ------------ 26 0 2352103 2 81921 3
I first ran a SQL snippet like this:
And this did indeed do a table scan.declare @status int select @status = 0 select * from text_events where status = @status
Then I tried a short DBI script, using placeholders:
In this case the index is used every time. Then I wrote an ad-hoc stored procedure to do the same thing, and I get a table scan. Which just goes to show that this sort of thing is a bit of a black art :-)my $sth = $dbh->prepare("select * from payment_db..text_events where e +vent_status = ?"); $sth->execute(1); fetch_all($sth); $sth->execute(0); fetch_all($sth);
Michael
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