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Re: Performance of REGEXP_LIKE vs LIKE?

From: Thomas Kellerer <JUAXQOSZFGQQ_at_spammotel.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 08:59:29 +0200
Message-ID: <58oiaiF2hfgtkU1@mid.individual.net> 





On 18.04.2007 22:52 zstringer999_at_gmail.com wrote:


> The regular expression syntax is cleaner, especially when you have a

> lot of strings to search for!  However, the LIKE expression runs in 20

> seconds, while the REGEXP_LIKE one runs in 60 seconds.  Has anyone

> else noticed this?  Any way to speed it up?

> 




I thought you should be able to create a function based index to support 
the regex match but I'm not sure (could have been Postgres where I did 
that the last time ;) )



Thomas
Received on Thu Apr 19 2007 - 01:59:29 CDT












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