Cronjob or MySQL event?

I would always go a cron job, because: That’s where sysadmins will expect it to be (this point is not to be underestimated) crontab is bullet-proof, time-tested, extremely widely used and understood You can freely direct/analyse error/success messages where you want Some database tasks require/prefer mysql to be off-line (eg full backup), so you’ve got … Read more