Preparing the Statement
The $dbh->prepare( $statement ) method is
used
This can mean different things depending on the
underlying DBD used. Oracle will use this stage
to send the statement to the database for
parsing. However, mSQL does nothing here at
all
The SQL statement is simply a Perl string and
therefore can be supplied as a literal string or as
a variable holding a built on-the-fly statement
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