[clue-tech] PHP/MySQL question

[Greg Knaddison]

On 9/22/05, Matt Gushee <matt at gushee.net> wrote:
> On the face of it, the above query seems like the best solution. Is
> there any reason to think it would be a bad idea, or that doing the
> sort-and-limit in PHP would be better?

I have mostly done web applications using ColdFusion and either Oracle
or SQL Server, though I have done a bit of ASP and PHP and MySQL.

That said, I've never encountered a situation where the web language
was faster than the database.  Sometimes they've been equal in speed,
but the language hasn't been faster than the pl/sql.  I'm sure you
could find examples where that's not true, but if you tune both, I
think the pl/sql will win.

Regards,
Greg
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