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What does || mean in SQL?


markuswinter

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Hi all,

 

I just came across the following SQL (aid and fid are two fields in both database tables):

 

delete from Table2 where aid || fid in (select aid || fid from Table1) ;

 

which is much faster than

 

delete from Table2 a where EXISTS( SELECT * FROM table1 b WHERE a.aid=b.aid AND a.fid=b.fid)

 

But what does || mean?

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It usually means a logical OR. I don't think that code is going to do what you want though. It will either delete all records where aid is a non-empty value, or it will delete all records where either aid or fid is non-empty. What it is not going to do is to delete all records from table 2 where either aid or fid is in table1.

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