There is no logical difference. There's a tiny bit of overhead in
preparing and executing the statements, but if you have a query where
the limit is variable, a prepared statement might be better than
coding within an application, because then when ANY user or
application connects it can use that
what is the difference between this:
SET @a=1; PREPARE STMT FROM 'SELECT * FROM tbl LIMIT ?';EXECUTE STMT USING
@a;
and this:
'SELECT * FROM tbl LIMIT 1
And then this:
SET @skip=1; SET @numrows=5;
PREPARE STMT FROM 'SELECT * FROM tbl LIMIT ?, ?';
EXECUTE STMT USING @skip, @numrows;
and this:
'
Hello everyone,
I have a few questions that I hope some of you might be able to answer.
Is there a MAX_SIZE on a select statements and when does MySQL lose
performance when the statement becomes very large?
When using the 'IN' clause, how does MySQL parse the data? Does it do an
inline sear