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Re: UPDATE - Increment Speed Question
Posted by: Sean Nolan
Date: April 04, 2005 03:40PM

I'm pretty certain that tip is saying that it is better to use a separate table to keep a count of things that you often need to get a count of - instead of running SELECT COUNT(*) ... queries.

So I don't think that it has anything to do with how fast that specific UPDATE syntax is, note that the tip starts "If you very often need to calculate results such as counts based on information from a lot of rows, it's probably much better to introduce a new table and update the counter in real time." The UPDATE you are referring to is then just an example, of how to do this, not an example of how to write a faster UPDATE statement.

Sean

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