http://www.perlmonks.org?node_id=1033033


in reply to Faster grep in a huge file(10 million)

Is there a problem with writing all of the data to a relational database and simply doing something like,

SELECT tbl2.* FROM tbl2 WHERE tbl2.id NOT IN (SELECT tbl1.id FROM tbl1 +);
?

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