What you are giving is some very bad, unfounded advice. What the bottleneck will be depends on several factors, including which database is being used, and how large the dataset will be. If you have a billion records fetched over a slow link from dark Africa, your connection time will be dwarved if you grab all the data. If you just have five records and 5000 simultanious connections to your database server running on a Sparc Classic, setting up the connection will be the bottleneck.

But none of this is known. Any claims on what will be the "best" or "fastest" solution without any further disclaimers is misleading at best, and just shows you not understanding databases.

My advice: implement several solutions and test. And make sure you test on well choosen data sets. And for futher advice, you are much better off at a database forum than at a Perl forum, as this is a database problem - not a Perl one.

-- Abigail

In reply to Re: faster access times by Abigail
in thread faster access times by Anonymous Monk

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