See "Prepared Statement Support" from http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBD::mysql#Class_Methods http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBD::mysql#Class_Methods Prepared

See "Prepared Statement Support" from http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBD::mysql#Class_Methods http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DBD::mysql#Class_Methods Prepared statements are disabled by default and require MySQL >= 4.1.3. Instead, the driver does the placeholder replacement on the client, and prepare() does nothing clever at all.