11. The program product of claim 9 , wherein the program code is further configured to associate with the identified statement a statement signature, and to access the modified statement in response to a user request to access a statement having a statement signature corresponding to the identified statement.
9. A program product, the product comprising: program code configured to be executed by a processor to manage a statement pool by identifying, from among a plurality of statements in a statement pool utilized by a database, a statement that requests data in a first format from a field in the database that stores the data in a second format, and modifying the identified statement in the statement pool to instruct the database to convert the data to the first format prior to returning the data; and a recordable medium storing the program code, wherein the program code is further configured to track usage of at least a subset of the plurality of statements, and to modify the identified statement based upon the tracked usage, and wherein the program code is configured to track usage by tracking at least one of a number of times and a last time that each of the subset of statements is used.