This should be a quickie.<BR><BR>I need to write a query that has to run in a tight loop in my application, so I want to make it efficient.<BR><BR>Is there any significant difference in efficiency ...

Well, if you happen to be using Sql Server you can do that sort of thing in T-Sql. In Oracle, you can also accomplish the same thing using pl/sql. Either way i'd do it in a stored ...