Henrik - your conclusions are too strong. If you want performant code then SQL, PL/SQL, whatever might be a bad choice. Or it might be a good choice. This just shows that that MySQL stored procedures are slower than PL/SQL and insert triggers slow down an insert. This also shows that PHP is slow and that hasn’t prevented successful deployments of it. There are many other things to consider when deciding whether to use a stored procedure or do it on the client side.
