When not to use PreparedStatement

[raj malhotra]

Hi Can anyone clarify the below quote from this

Sometimes prepared statements can actually be slower than regular queries. The reason for this is that there are two round-trips to the server, which can slow down simple queries that are only executed a single time.

At what point of time this two round-trips happens?

thanks
Raj
[ December 18, 2008: Message edited by: raj malhotra ]

[David O'Meara]

I'd ignore the comment. In practice the compilation time for a one-off statement is unlikely to impact your application, where compiling the same statement millions of times will.

[raj malhotra]

thanks David