Display on site not updating

[pilotjourney]

I have a mySQL db and when I make a change to the db the content on the site does not update until sometime later.

Is there a setting that determines when the data actually shows up on the website? If so is this something I want to locate and change?

Thanks

[r937]

mysql data does not appear on web pages unless there is some scripting language such as php, asp, jsp, coldfusion...

i would investigate your specific installation to see if your language has some sort of web page caching in place

[pilotjourney]

I thought it was just one application that I was using where updates to the database seemed like they took 3-30 minutes.

But then I was in another application that uses mysql and I noticed the same thing. I tried refreshing the browser, even closed and opened it.

The new data did not show up yet.

Is there some kind of delay before data writes? Or is this an application by application thing. Some times I notice it and sometimes I don't.

Thank you

[pilotjourney]

Thank for your reply. The applications in question are like Joomla (Mambo) and a couple other systems in PHP

[longneck]

the application must be doing it. after a client writes the data to the db server, it's immediately available to the application.