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in thread Help on selecting and deleting many records in a DB.

I seems rather more complicated, not easier. In what way does this make the queries faster? Benchmark?

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Re^5: Help on selecting and deleting many records in a DB.
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 06, 2014 at 08:39 UTC
    I would try something like:
    my %ipH; my $sth = spi_query("SELECT * FROM data"); while (defined ($row = spi_fetchrow($sth))) { delete fetched or hashed; }
    but it's not tested.
Re^5: Help on selecting and deleting many records in a DB.
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 06, 2014 at 09:28 UTC
    And deletion is done by a command like:
    $req = spi_exec_query("DELETE FROM data WHERE id = $id",1);
Re^5: Help on selecting and deleting many records in a DB.
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 06, 2014 at 07:34 UTC
    A cavall donat, no li miris el dentat.