Re: [PHP-DEV] Re: mysql and unbuffered queries

[Zeev Suraski]

At 13:07 7/5/2001, Jani Taskinen wrote:

>Second question is: What is the use of mysql_query() function anymore
>then? Why not just exchange mysql_query() with mysql_unbuffered_query() ?
>
>You didn't say anything about any disadvantages on using it. :)

Well there are some advantages:

- In smaller queries (that is, smaller result sets), mysql_query() is 
probably considerably faster
- You can't use mysql_num_rows() on an unbuffered query result

Zeev


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