RE: Is there a performance advantage to using placeholders with Sybase?

I would say yes. Sybase has to prepare the query (compile) every time you
run a prepare. If you only 1 run prepare, then you're having to deal with
query time only. This should be more efficient. I've been told there's a
risk of some sort of funky tempdb usage based on the contents of the
prepare when place holders are involved, but I've really never noticed an
issue. 

 

P.S. If you're looking to optimize, then another thing you should look at
is prepare_cached.

 

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Wechsler, Steven
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 4:25 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Is there a performance advantage to using placeholders with
Sybase?

 

DBI documentation says that you're better off using placeholders rather
than continully preparing and executing, or using $dbh->do(). Does this
hold true with Sybase?

 

Steve Wechsler | [email protected] 
Sybase/SQL Server/MySQL Database Administrator 
212-846-5683 

MTV Networks 

 



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