[StilesCrisis]

A "prepared statement" is a precompiled SQL command, ready for bindings and execution: https://sqlite.org/c3ref/stmt.html

You can't precompile your SQL at build time, unfortunately, but you _can_ precompile all your SQL at the very start of your program and then never touch the parser again. This might be a good middle ground for you. It is infra that you can centralize, write some unit tests against, and then not worry about forever.

It's not common because the SQLite parser is lightning fast and it's so convenient to just write out a new query as you need one, versus having one bucket of all queries. But it's an option!