If your web server and database server are either on the same machine or on reasonably fast and uncongested LAN, I suppose they are going to be small, if not negligible

It's not the same machine, no. I have it set up that way now (with firehose cursor), and I don't notice any lag at all in the app, but I don't really know how I would do a stress test against it to know how it will perform with many users.

As for keeping it standard...yeah, I hear ya. I'm building an app that must support varied DB servers, by nature...and I'm writing seperate modules for each. I know that's not keeping it simple with standard SQL, but PHP uses different functions to access different types of DB servers, so I have to write different connection modules anyway...I just figured I'd take advantages of some of the more helpful features of each DB server while I'm at it. For example, I'm using the LIMIT keyword in my MySQL connector when running queries.

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