note 98317 deleted from pdostatement.fetch by danbrown

Note Submitter: Tyler S ---- To Typer85 at gmail dot com, The reason why you can still execute on the returned PDOStatement is because the PDOStatement instance contains a reference to the original PDO instance. Therefore, your '$Handle = null;' is only setting that one reference to null; there is still at least one more reference alive within the PDOStatement. The PDO instance still exists and therefore so does your connection.