New in the 7 series... I've noticed a lot of queries have things like:
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WHERE  t1.USER_ID = ? 

If I'm not mistaken, this is part of the new "prepared statement" feature of MySQL, correct?

However, aren't prepared statements only present in MySQLi? So if it's not a prepared statement, what is it? (My ignorance on this topic is stiffling my modification abilities.)

On that topic, any thought about moving to MySQLi... perhaps for 8.0? I'm sure everyone has gotten with the times and are running PHP 5x by now. wink