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You can use IN clause to replace many OR conditions
To understand IN clause consider an employee_tbl table which is having following records:
mysql> SELECT * FROM employee_tbl; +------+------+------------+--------------------+ | id | name | work_date | daily_typing_pages | +------+------+------------+--------------------+ | 1 | John | 2007-01-24 | 250 | | 2 | Ram | 2007-05-27 | 220 | | 3 | Jack | 2007-05-06 | 170 | | 3 | Jack | 2007-04-06 | 100 | | 4 | Jill | 2007-04-06 | 220 | | 5 | Zara | 2007-06-06 | 300 | | 5 | Zara | 2007-02-06 | 350 | +------+------+------------+--------------------+ 7 rows in set (0.00 sec) |
Now suppose based on the above table you want to display records with daily_typing_pages equal to 250 and 220 and 170. This can be done using OR conditions as follows
mysql>SELECT * FROM employee_tbl ->WHERE daily_typing_pages= 250 OR ->daily_typing_pages= 220 OR daily_typing_pages= 170; +------+------+------------+--------------------+ | id | name | work_date | daily_typing_pages | +------+------+------------+--------------------+ | 1 | John | 2007-01-24 | 250 | | 2 | Ram | 2007-05-27 | 220 | | 3 | Jack | 2007-05-06 | 170 | | 4 | Jill | 2007-04-06 | 220 | +------+------+------------+--------------------+ 4 rows in set (0.02 sec) |
Same can be achieved using IN clause as follows:
mysql> SELECT * FROM employee_tbl -> WHERE daily_typing_pages IN ( 250, 220, 170 ); +------+------+------------+--------------------+ | id | name | work_date | daily_typing_pages | +------+------+------------+--------------------+ | 1 | John | 2007-01-24 | 250 | | 2 | Ram | 2007-05-27 | 220 | | 3 | Jack | 2007-05-06 | 170 | | 4 | Jill | 2007-04-06 | 220 | +------+------+------------+--------------------+ 4 rows in set (0.02 sec) |
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