User-defined function: Difference between revisions

Content deleted Content added
SmilesALot (talk | contribs)
m Reverted edits by 203.100.78.117 to last version by Stolze
Databases: fixed spelling
Line 35:
User-defined functions should not be confused with [[stored procedure]]s. Stored procedures allow the user to group a set of SQL commands. A procedure can accept parameters and execute its SQL statements depending on those parameters. A procedure is not an [[expression (programming)|expression]] and, thus, cannot be used like user-defined functions.
 
Some database management systems allow the creation of user defined functions in languages other than SQL. MirosoftMicrosoft SQL Server, for example, allows the user to use .NET languages for this purpose. DB2 and Oracle support usel-defined functions written in C or Java programming languages.
 
==External links==