Not relevant? For all we know the database is a chemical-driven telepathic jellybase from the planet Zartog. "The three-headed jellybase developers never told me if their database architecture supports autojoins, with GROUP BY and HAVING clauses...."

...believe it or not there is a hint in there somewhere ;)

Update: Actually come to think of it, all you need is GROUP BY, + COUNT(*) - check out your database documentation (from whichever planet it comes ;))

More update: I am also influenced by the doubt as to whether DBI is artificially intelligent enough to insert the required clauses -- it might still query the database for all the rows that meet the where clause which might still be a query from hell at the database end, even though it might be constrained only to return 2 to the caller! Make sure you check the SQL generated by any Perl libraries you do try out.

-M

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In reply to Re: search like by Moron
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