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by UnoriginalGuy 4243 days ago
> Generating SQL statements always involves string manipulation at some stage, doesn't it? I mean at some point even PDO has to send query strings to the SQL server.

If your database supports it set PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES to false. If not, I'd still take PDO's implementation over a million different implementations which other projects come up with such as this one.