Which is faster? ...PHP or mySQL queries

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I've been programing with PHP for some time now, but am just getting started with mySQL.

In general, which is faster?

1) One query call to a database and then extracting several different subsets of data using PHP.

2) Several query calls to a database with very little PHP-side processing.

In other words, is it faster to process on the PHP-side or the database-side?

Thanks,
Kory
 
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