Posted by J on 02/12/06 06:53

"Dimitris Mexis" <m65@vivodinet.gr> wrote in message
news:dsimlr$jrl$2@ulysses.noc.ntua.gr...
Suppose I am only one person, and I have a database, full of
data...thousands of lines...
Is it a good aproach to build an environment which will calculate means,
deviations, distributions with PHP ?
If yes, is it good for 50 people?

If not...How is the best way, having in mind that I want to make it "web" ?

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It depends.

Try to describe a more specific "use case" or scenario.. what will these 50
people be doing?

What kind of machine are you rrunning? an old pentium 2 or a newer one?
Is the "server" actually a desktop that's being used for other things, or is
it dedicated to this task?

Keep in mind.. you could try your calculations within sql queries and thus
make the database engine do it, OR you could ask the php module to get ALL
the data from mysql and calculate it outside...... I'd let the db do it:
"select AVG(Column3), STD(Column3) from table" Php will send this query and
grab the results. Boom, it's 'web'.

-J

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