On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 01:21:43PM -0400, Stef Telford wrote:
> maybe i am naive in thinking this way, but surely the a database function
> formatting the returned string must be quicker then perl. (speaking
> generically of course, i conceed that there are times when the reverse
> is true)
Formatting data is not always so simple. You definately need to
encode entities and such, and doing this from SQL could get to be a
pain. Particularly when you decide that now you want this column to
contain a link to some other page, or that rows should alternate
colors, or whatever.
Doing some of the work in the database is generally a good thing, but
I think in this case it's just a hell of a lot easier in Perl because
it's a more powerful language.
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