I'm not understanding most of your remarks here, and I'm not sure how they would apply in my case. I don't use cookies, and the pages the visitor accesses are behind a login screen. They are not public, nor would an online search find them indexed.

As for your question, perhaps I would ask one in return: What would be the advantage of using "study" before a hairy regex if that were the only regex expression in the script and it would only be executed once?

My present understanding of placeholders is that they inform the database as to the form or pattern of subsequent queries, essentially providing structure to those queries which are yet to come. But, if this is true, hardly any of my queries will follow the same pattern, and therefore would not be made more efficient by creating a placeholder expression for each one.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

In reply to Re^6: Best practices for closing database connections? by Polyglot
in thread Best practices for closing database connections? by Polyglot

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