Tuesday, June 25, 2013

What is the difference between a Statement and a PreparedStatement?

Most relational databases handles a JDBC / SQL query in four steps:
1.Parse the incoming SQL query
2. Compile the SQL query
3. Plan/optimize the data acquisition path
4. Execute the optimized query / acquire and return data
A Statement will always proceed through the four steps above for each SQL query sent to the database.
PreparedStatement pre-executes steps (1) – (3) in the execution process above.
Thus, when creating a PreparedStatement some pre-optimization is performed immediately.
The effect is to lessen the load on the database engine at execution time.

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