[prog] bind variables (was: PHP script security)

[Dan Richter]

>Just out of curiosity, do other databases have bind variables? or is that 
>yet another Oracleism?

I don't know if any other databases support it.

Java has something like it called prepared statements:
   http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/sql/PreparedStatement.html

But Java is generic; prepared statements work even on databases that don't 
"support" (pre-parse) them.

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