For small data volumes - OK. Great. For mass data, where will you store all the stuff you "select into perl", e.g., to group it: in memory?

That said, for a lot of situations it *is* a good thing to do some of the processing in Perl, if only to stay database vendor independent.

(Updated to use the right id link syntax): See also Storing Complex Structures in a database.

Christian Lemburg
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