…MySQL or PHP landscape you should have seen announcement by MySQL to develop pure PHP…Prepared Statements Dealing with certain types of queries, ie queries with IN is so painful with prepared statements…
Comment: Wishes for new "Pure PHP" MySQL driver
… MySQL to something else is probably less than rewriting them from PHP to something…statements ( I guess everyone has little function which does the trick) but it is painful with prepared statements…implemented as a proxy for MySQL protocol supporting persistent connections would automatically allow …
Comment: Database problems in MySQL/PHP Applications
…right that when used properly, prepare can (if used properly) …PHP applications abstraction layer is > not the main performance problem, also benefit from persistent…. > Things are different with MySQL. Good design will help …benefit available. Making a blanket statement that using relations is bad is …

