David Goodenough wrote:
This set me thinking (always dangerous). I can see how a SELECT can be helped by preparing the statement, but not really how an INSERT could
or, other than the SELECT implicit in the WHERE clause on an UPDATE or
DELETE, how UPDATE or DELETE statements would be helped.

Can anyone enlighten me please?

Well, it does take time to parse/plan even a simple INSERT. But, unless you are repeating that query many times (e.g. 1000 inserts to bulk-load a table) I'm not sure you'll notice any gain.

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  Richard Huxton
  Archonet Ltd

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