Hi All!

I was just reading PlanetMySQL and noticed Mike Hillyer's recent post on a user-friendly age function for MySQL. Basically, this function accepts two DATETIME values and returns an indication of the time between the two dates in the form of a human-readable string. For example:

mysql> select  TimeDiffUnits('2001-05-01', '2002-01-01')
+-------------------------------------------+
| TimeDiffUnits('2001-05-01', '2002-01-01') |
+-------------------------------------------+
| 8 Months                                  |
+-------------------------------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

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At the MySQL User's conference 2008 I did a tutorial on MySQL User-defined functions. At the same conference, Brian Miezejewski and Mark Atwood did a talk on aggregate UDFs.

In relation their upcoming talk, Mark wrote a blog post reporting that MySQL Aggregate UDFs are three times slower than equivalent native functions:

I just proved to myself via testing and benchmarking that user defined aggregate functions are about three times slower than the call

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