I really understand [the need for prepare_cached()], and I can see that an application would want to use it, but Sybase's support of placeholders is (maybe) somewhat limited in this respect.

Sometimes abstractions work great in theory, but suck for some edge cases. Trying to pretend that all databases support placeholders makes code much more portable, at the expense of suboptimal (or just plain terrible) performance when dealing with a database that doesn't support placeholders. Sybase, at least through the native DB*Lib API, doesn't support placeholders (I think this is true through CT*Lib, though that's years back, and I don't have that API at hand). To cope with this, the various abstract APIs (e.g., DBI, ODBC) that sit atop the native API have to pretend to prepare a query while in reality they're expanding the query and quoting bind variables at execute time.

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