Hello Monks, I am trying to query a database using PERL. I have 2 FILES. FILE1 already contains a list of primarykeys. FILE2 contains a list of terms. Primary keys are related to abstracts in the database. I want to query database such that, I will get primarykeys from FILE1 which also has terms from FILE2 in their abstracts. I posted this question on stackoverflow, here is the link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8600324/subquerying-in-mysql-with-full-text-querying/8662901#8662901

I got the answer posted by stevenl. Now my concern is I have around 58,00,000 primarykeys in FILE1 and 26,000 terms in FILE2. This makes it time consuming. I am going to work on multiple such FILES. One of the answers by pseudocode on the same link of stackoverflow suggested me to reduce database transaction and instead use PERL to do this work. According to him, I will get the abstracts using the primarykeys in FILE1 and search the terms from FILE2 in the abstract using string search. If any if the terms from FILE2 is present in the abstract get the corresponding primarykey. I will put the terms from FILE2 in an array.

I would like to know will this really help and do the work more efficiently? And how can I implement it?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

In reply to Alternative to querying a database to save time by smandape1

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