title: How effective is executeBatch on a Prepared Statement?
body: <p>Subject to this question, asks it all:How effective is executeBatch method? Is there a performance benchmark, that says.. 'if you have 1000 records to be inserted, using a executeBatch instead of executeUpdate saves you x amount of database cycles?' </p>
  
  <p>Or Is this just a convention? </p>
  
  <p>EDIT:
  Here is what I am working with: a DB2 V 8.1 hosted on Z/OS, a web app that would be inserting 80,000 records at one go in it's worst case scenario execution.</p>