Re: DBI prepare and fetch

Many thanks for your replies. I think the reason for prepare is the
statement handle on return so it can be passed adcross with subroutine
calls. Passing a statement handle is less memory intensive than passing
the SQL around. Please correct me if I am wrong.

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