Re: Coding superstitions

[jwest]

in reply to Coding superstitions

The only superstitious thing that I've noticed in my own code is my apparent inability to, while using DBI, just do something. I always prepare and execute instead.

"What are you preparing? You're always preparing! Just go!" --DH

--jwest

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[andye]

Me too. I do prepare, bind, execute, fetch when I could do all this in one call.

Mostly habit, though my rationale is that if something goes wrong, I'll at least know which stage it failed at. (OTOH, the error almost always occurs in the execute stage anyway, so I'm not sure why I bother).

andy.