---- mark d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This optimization might have made some sense decades over a serial line, but
> not today. It is saving 320 single-packet round trips, which is an
> infintesimal amount of traffic.
Well, traffic wise, you're right. But, it also saves parsing all those rows
out of the DB and through the DBI; this way the only process that has to work
with the data is the oracle engine. Use DBI where appropriate... Right tool
for the job, and all that...
> Mark
v/r,
amonotod
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