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Getting data from a site, what method is more efficient ?
Using Rss feed
or
Sql query

Getting data from another site? RSS feed. Either way most likely an sql query will be used. (the display, or to generate the RSS feed)

From My site,

From your site? I'd say SQL the rss feed has to get the data from the db anyway, so either way an SQL query will be used

If it's from your own site, an SQL query will perform much quicker than the HTTP request made to an RSS feed, then the following parsing done.

Request -> RSS - > SQL
vs
Request -> SQL

Thanks all got it