Re: can stored procedures with computational sql queries improve API performance?

> On Jul 9, 2024, at 7:21 PM, Krishnakant Mane <kkproghub@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On 7/10/24 06:44, Guyren Howe wrote:
>>> On Jul 9, 2024, at 17:58, Krishnakant Mane <kkproghub@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hello.
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>>> I have a straight forward question, but I am just trying to analyze the specifics.
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>>> So I have a set of queries depending on each other in a sequence to compute some results for generating financial report.
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>>> It involves summing up some amounts from tuns or of rows and also on certain conditions it categorizes the amounts into types (aka Debit Balance, Credit balance etc).
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>>> There are at least 6 queries in this sequence and apart from 4 input parameters. these queries never change.
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>>> So will I get any performance benefit by having them in a stored procedure rather than sending the queries from my Python based API?
>> Almost certainly.
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>> Doing it all in a stored procedure or likely even better a single query will remove all of the latency involved in going back and forth between your app and the database.
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>> Insofar as the queries you are running separately access similar data, a single query will be able to do that work once.
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>> There are other potential benefits (a smaller number of queries reduces planning time, for example).
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> Basically there are if else conditions and it's not just the queries but the conditional sequence in which they execute.
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> So one single query won't do the job.
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Are you processing the results of each of the queries in your python code before sending the next query?  If so, i don't think you will see much improvement per query 


> But Thank you for confirming my understanding.
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> I believe that the fact that stored procedures are compiled also makes them perform faster, is that correct?
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If the SP is fired in a loop or very frequently ( not monthly), yes 
> Regards.
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