Re: Math Operations - DB or App?

On 5/10/06, Sean Davis <sdavis2@mail.nih.gov> wrote:

> The biggest plus is that most of the data never leaves the server, so
> client-side overhead, memory issues with the client, and network bandwidth
> are much less of a problem than it you transfer the who table to the client,
> for example, to do a couple of simple sums.  There are other advantages,
> like being able to adjust the schema or the functions on the database side
> and have these changes propagate automatically through to various apps.
With which operations/what number of calculations does
the CPU load on the server become a problem, though (compared
to the network-traffic caused by having it on the client-side)?  I can
think of a few applications/implementations that I wouldn't want to
be running on the server - where to draw the line?


Cheers,
Andrej


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