Pretty often, if you're doing simple queries. From there, you can either increase the size of the query, or make it more complex (which increases its computati

Pretty often, if you're doing simple queries. From there, you can either increase the size of the query, or make it more complex (which increases its computational size) to amortize away the overhead. It always depends on the workload but cases like this, where the overhead is significant, are fairly common.