# Rails newbie asking another question

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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 7, 2008, 5:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-newbie-asking-another-question/128377 "2008-02-07T05:52:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![flychunjae](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/3ab097/32.png) [@flychunjae](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/flychunjae)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 5:52am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-newbie-asking-another-question/128377/1 "2008-02-07T05:52:59Z")

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i think i’ve read somewhere lots of sql queries would slow things down.  
how slow are we talking about? in terms of seconds i guess. i would  
also assume that the size of the db would come into account as well as  
the amount of users querying the db?

does the speed come to a point where it’s really unbearable?

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**Author:** ![flychunjae](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/3ab097/32.png) [@flychunjae](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/flychunjae)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2008, 9:46am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/rails-newbie-asking-another-question/128377/2 "2008-02-07T09:46:44Z")

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On 7 Feb 2008, at 04:52, Richard Y. wrote:

> i think i’ve read somewhere lots of sql queries would slow things  
> down.  
> how slow are we talking about? in terms of seconds i guess. i would  
> also assume that the size of the db would come into account as well as  
> the amount of users querying the db?

Depends how slow your queries are 🙂 This is really a ‘how long is a  
piece of string’ type question. Just bear in mind that every database  
access has its cost (even say a select from a one row table - you’ve  
still got the latency of the round trip).

Fred