PHP’s mysqli extension
Using PHP4+ and MySQL 4.1+
Written by Georg Richter <georg@php.net>
70+ functions
Improve performance of
repetitive non-SELECT queries
non-cacheable SELECT queries
Send the server a query to parse & cache
You get back a statement handle
Execute the statement many times
May not benefit all web apps
Can be a big help to batch processing
Application servers and middleware
Copyright 2003, Jeremy Zawodny