The only thing that stands out as slow in your code is the use of the LIKE predicate - you are performing a full-text search with wildcards and, depending on the number of records and the size of the fields, that could take a while. Yes, you should be using placeholders, but they won't speed up this particular snippet any. I am assuming that your database table is properly indexed, if not, "talk to the database people" :-). It's also possible that it's the database connection itself that is slowing you down, in which case you may want to explore persistence via mod_perl or something. If you have thousands of rows in the resultset, you might gain some speed by using DBI's bind_columns.

In reply to Re: DB Question, speed is the answer! by jZed
in thread DB Question, speed is the answer! by Anonymous Monk

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