Hi All, We are using the C++ interface of sqlite to create and populate databases. What we have noticed is that it takes about 10-20 sec ( depending on machine - Linux server machines) to execute one sqlite3_prepare_v2() command per database. Our questions are: 1. Is this expected or something that is can be done to improve it ( we are compiling our own sqlite3. 2. The command we are preparing is identical for many databases, is there any way to prepare once and reuse for different databases?