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Parameters have zero bearing on whether you should dynamically construct SQL strings. If parameters can solve all of your problems, you don't have a dynamic SQL query, you have user-submitted values in a WHERE clause.

What can be parameterized depends wildly on the SQL database in question. I haven't used one that could parameterize table names (for use in dynamic JOINs or CTEs) and many cannot parameterize values outside of a WHERE clause. Dynamically selecting which function to call, clauses to add or subtract, and sort orders are just a slice of places parameters don't help.

In short, parameters alone do no eliminate the need for a query builder. A good query builder should appropriately parameterize values as the underlying database supports and hopefully uses a type system or validation to constrict the domain of values it uses to construct parts of the expression that cannot be parameterized.



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