Let's say I have a table tbl with columns id and title. I need to change all values of title column:
Right now, I'm performing two UPDATE statements:
UPDATE tbl SET title='a1' WHERE title IN ('a-1', 'a.1') UPDATE tbl SET title='b1' WHERE title IN ('b-1', 'b.1')
This isn't at all a problem, if the table is small, and the single statement completes in less than a second and you only need a few statements to execute.
You probably guested it - I have a huge table to deal with (one statement completes in about 90 seconds), and I have a huge number of updates to perform.
So, is it possible to merge the updates so it would only scan the table once? Or perhaps, there's a better way to deal with in a situation like this.
EDIT: Note, that the real data I'm working with and the changes to the data I have to perform are not really that simple - the strings are longer and they don't follow any pattern (it is user data, so no assumptions can be made - it can be anything).
Yes, you could add all the single-line-Update-statements in one query like you are doing.
We can update multiple columns by specifying multiple columns after the SET command in the UPDATE statement. The UPDATE statement is always followed by the SET command, it specifies the column where the update is required.
There are a couple of ways to do it. INSERT INTO students (id, score1, score2) VALUES (1, 5, 8), (2, 10, 8), (3, 8, 3), (4, 10, 7) ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE score1 = VALUES(score1), score2 = VALUES(score2);
UPDATE Syntax Notice the WHERE clause in the UPDATE statement. The WHERE clause specifies which record(s) that should be updated. If you omit the WHERE clause, all records in the table will be updated!
You can use one statement and a number of case statements
update tbl set title = case when title in ('a-1', 'a.1') then 'a1' when title in ('b-1', 'b.1') then 'b1' else title end
Of course, this will cause a write on every record, and with indexes, it can be an issue, so you can filter out only the rows you want to change:
update tbl set title = case when title in ('a-1', 'a.1') then 'a1' when title in ('b-1', 'b.1') then 'b1' else title end where title in ('a.1', 'b.1', 'a-1', 'b-1')
That will cut down the number of writes to the table.
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