Re: on select statements

2006-04-03 Thread sheeri kritzer
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

on select statements

2006-04-03 Thread Yemi Obembe
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: '

Limitations on select statements?

2001-03-26 Thread Dave Juntgen
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