webmaster@iparenting.com (Julie Keywell) writes: > I am querying our database for 11,000 different zip codes and it seems > to be overloading MySQL. However, common sense says it shouldn't. > > My question is: > When needing to query 11,000 things, is it best to make 1 SQL statement > that has 11,000 ors, or run through individual querys 11,000 times? Any > help would be wonderful! I am making PHP do the counting rather than > MySQL. I'm thinking join somehow, but I'm not sure I completely understand the question. Post the query and table structure (you should change the table names first, I guess, and only the necessary tables), and maybe I for one can say more. :-) -- --Fredrik ... and furthermore ... I don't like your trousers. -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php