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Why did Facebook, Wordpress, vBulletin use PHP/MySQL?
Is there a reason regarding the goals of these sites of using PHP? I mean is it PHP/MySQL is the most suitable tools to run these sites or is it the reason because no other languages but PHP were …
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When is it better to offload work to the RDBMS rather than to do it in code?
Okay, I'll cop to it: I'm a better coder than I am at databases, and I'm wondering where thoughts on "best practices" lie on the subject of doing "simple" calculations in the SQL query vs. in the …
