On Friday 17 June 2011 04:50:00 Daevid Vincent wrote: > > I've seen too many people over the years try and rally against common > > sense practices like using prepared statements for perhaps a marginal > > gain of performance on one page while their load averages are 0,0,0. > > Agreed. The ONLY time prepared statements are useful, is in a loop where > you're changing a few variables but within the same SQL statement. That is > a rare case for most people. >
Not ONLY. I love prepared statements because with them I can store arbitrary strings in DB without need to worry about fancy escaping and SQL injection. And do it in DB-independent way. Think about all that extra escaping and performance gain of not using prepared statement will shrink a lot ) Don't have actual numbers though. -- Vitalii -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
