Re: randomly picking a variable from an array
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Fri, 07 Sep 2001 21:32:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: randomly picking a variable from an array | ||
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> Which is more resource attentive however (Random question, not necessarily
> pertaining to this)?
>
> Making MySQL do extra work or PHP do some extra work?
Generally it would be more efficient to have MySQL do it as part of its
SELECT. But there could be cases where it would be more efficient to do
it in PHP. Really depends on what you are doing. Try benchmarking both.
-Rasmus