Php Prepared Statements Turn Emulation Off

Question

Are there any side effects to turning off emulation when using prepared statements with pdo? I\'m using a select * and limiting the results which needs to be handled as an i

Answer 1

Nope, there are no pros or cons worth mentioning.

Obviously turning emulation off would save a lot of binding.

Not that much. You can use binding only for such cases with LIMIT and continue using lazy binding in execute() for all other cases even with emulation turned on.