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Gray Hair is still relevant

From: Rich Ryan <rryan_at_cshore.com>
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 22:52:34 GMT
Message-ID: <SMfsg.38920$VE1.20197@newssvr14.news.prodigy.com> 





This is a real  2006 post:



"Let's say I have a table of users, and each user has a list of
categories.  I could store each user's categories as TEXT with
delimeters like "cat1|cat2|cat3"



But then I need to be able to get a full list of everyone's categories,
without duplicates.  Retrieving all the categories, exploding them, and
then removing the duplicates is a bit slow.  Is there a better method?"



What worked 25 years ago still works today.



Rich
Received on Sun Jul 09 2006 - 17:52:34 CDT












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