Setting date in prepared statement

Question

I am using
preparesStatement.setDate(param1,findAuditSearchDTO.getStgAuditGeneral().getAuditBeginDate());
I am wondering setting date this way will slow down the query?
should I use preparesStatement.setString where I can call to_date function or the above code will work fine and not make any difference in performance ?

Answer 1

user11138293 wrote:
I am using
preparesStatement.setDate(param1,findAuditSearchDTO.getStgAuditGeneral().getAuditBeginDate());
I am wondering setting date this way will slow down the query? No. And even if it did, it would still be the right way to do it. The main point of using PreparedStatement is so that you can use the correct types in your Java code and don't have to worry about formatting and such.
As far as performance is concerned, any difference introduced by type conversion will be minuscule compared to roundtrip I/O between you and the DB and any disk I/O the DB needs to do. And of course, if it's a DATE column on the DB (which it had better be, if it's representing a date), then the DB would just have to convert the string to a date anyway.
Focus on good design, and on using data structures, algorithms, classes, and methods, that are appropriate to what you're trying to do and that lead to easy-to-understand code.