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CREATE PROCEDURE
Syntax
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CREATE PROCEDURE [ owner_name.]procname
( [ parameter_decl [ , ... ] ] )
[ RESULT ( column_name data_type [ , ... ] ) ]
[ IMPORT
java_import_clause ]
BEGIN
java_snippet
END
parameter_decl
This is the syntax for parameter_decl:
Syntax
owner_name
procname
{ IN | OUT | INOUT } parameter_name data_type
Specifies the owner of the procedure. If the name is different from the user name of the
user executing the statement, then the user must have DBA privileges.
Names the stored procedure. DROP PROCEDURE statements specify the procedure name
defined here. SQL also uses procname in the name of the Java class that it creates from the
Java snippet.
IN | OUT | INOUT
Specifies whether following parameter declaration is input, output, or both.
Calling applications pass values for input parameters in the CALL statement or CALL escape
sequence.
Stored procedures assign values to output parameters as part of their processing.
INOUT parameters have both a value passed in and receive a new value during procedure
processing.
parameter_name data_type
Names a parameter and associates an SQL data type with it. The data type must be one
supported by OpenEdge.
RESULT ( column_name data_type [ , ... ] )
Specifies columns in the result set the procedure returns. If the CREATE PROCEDURE
statement includes this clause, the Java snippet must explicitly insert rows into the result
set using the Java class SQLResultSet.
Note that the column_name argument is not used in the body of the stored procedure.
Instead, methods of the Java classes refer to columns in the result set by ordinal number,
not by name. The IMPORT keyword must be uppercase and on a separate line. The body is