Hi everyone, I would like to thank all the people that have answered my question and all the others that didn't have the time to answer it. As I have seen, the opinions on this point are quite different and the answer is not as evident as the technical director affirmed to me.
Thank you. Sergio Giz a écrit : > PHP is designed for rapid development of web applications. Manipulating > relational database data is not its strong point. If I had a complicated > database manipulation that could be done within and oracle stored procedure, > and the database was large, or expected to get that way, I would strongly > consider a stored proc, even if there was a simple alternative available via > a short block of php, because the stored proc is going to be faster. > > This is no different than someone doing a select statement using a join, > rather than selecting one table in php, iterating through the result set, > and doing follow up select statements. In each case you would get the same > data, but one method is intrinsically faster than the other. > > With that said... as the old saying goes "to the man with a hammer, > everything looks like a nail." It may be that the interviewer simply knows > oracle better than anything else, and looks to solve all problems with > pl/sql, and oracle does provide the capability to do relatively complete web > applications completely in pl/sql. > > For many people the abilities of pl/sql are irrelevant, because they are not > using oracle as the backend. > > -----Original Message----- > From: RIVES Sergio SOFRECOM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 12:44 AM > To: phplist > Subject: [PHP] (pas d'objet) > > Hi everyone, > > I have a doubt, an existential question on the PHP... Yesterday I had an > entrevue for a job and I was quite surprised by the technical director > that told me that he prefers coding PL/SQL subroutines better than in > PHP embedding. The Oracle database on which he works is about 100 Go. > The application is on a web server. It is like a startup structure. > I told him that I prefer doing all the things I can do with PHP better > than in PL/SQL. He told me that all treatments couldn't be done in PHP > because of the size of the database and memory limitation. > I am writing you this mail to know your point of view on that point if > you have time to answer me. What would be then the limit of the PHP > coding ? For such a database what would be the right parametrization of > the PHP.ini ? is there only a right parametrization for such database ? > Does anyone have some information on that limitation of the PHP ? any > article ? > > Thanks in advance for your answers and time. > > Sergio > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
