On 5 Oct 2011, at 02:16, Jeremiah Dodds wrote: > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Stuart Dallas <stuart@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Prepared statements incur an additional hit against the DB server to prepare the statement. > > But only once, right? This could, of course, still be a downside > depending the nature of your app. Once per statement per request, yes. Most web apps execute one-off statements during each request, so the ability to reuse a prepared statement is not a helpful feature for that environment. -Stuart -- Stuart Dallas 3ft9 Ltd http://3ft9.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php