Searching for users email contacts in db

Databases
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Hi

I’m busying building a tool for my site where i get a users email contacts which i then want to match with email addresses of users in my database.

This is all fine, but my question is that if a user has hundreds of contacts, and im searching through thousands of users, isn’t this going to be a very intensive query?


SELECT userid FROM users WHERE email IN (" . implode(",",$contacts) . ")

Should i be doing this some other way or limit the number of users that i search for or is this not a problem? I have set the ‘email’ field as unique, but should i be doing some other kind of indexing?

Thanks

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no, the unique index is sufficient

do an EXPLAIN on the query to confirm :slight_smile:

by the way, i have more than one email address, and i don’t think i am very unique :smiley:

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:slight_smile:

thanks very much!