Re: Index Question?

[Egor Egorov]

"Anthony Ward" <awards@stripped> wrote:
> I read at MySQL.com that the table will not use the index if in the query
> statment there is the use of 'OR'
> ie.
> SELECT * FROM table WHERE number = 1 or number = 2 .
> 
> Is that true??

Nope, it's not true.

MySQL will not use index in queries like

SELECT .. FROM table WHERE index1='some_value1' or index2='some_value2'



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