Question

Which do you think is faster in a PHP script:

$query = 'SELECT... FROM ... ORDER BY first_val'; 

or

while($row = odbc_fetch_array($result))     $arrayname[] = array(         'first_key' => $row['first_val'],         'second_key' => $row['second_val'],         etc...     ); sort($arrayname); 

Answer 1

It depends on so many factors that I don’t even know what to begin with.

But as a rule, you perform sorting on database side.

Indexes, collations and all this, they help.