On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 09:26:09PM -0700, Tom Jackson wrote:

> If something actually gets complex, it is probably better done in the pl 
> language, which can end up being several orders of magnitude faster. 

Or it can end up being enormously slower.  It Depends.  I've seen both
happen with Oracle PL/SQL vs. SQL.  (Measure first, then optimize...)

Typically, one chooses whether to use PL/SQL or not out of design and
implementation convenience for your code, not as a performance tuning
measure.

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