Callable code installed on a database manager, exposing an API through which it can be invoked. Normally written in the native query language, some DBMS platforms support other languages as well.

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Dynamic SQL in MySQL stored routines

According to the restrictions on stored routines and triggers, dynamic sql cannot be used (restriction lifted for stored procedures in version 5.0.13 and later). Why is this limitation in place? And ...
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decreased performance of stored procedure when migrated from mysql server 5.0 to 5.5

i recently testing the move of our db from one server to another. as part of this process i copied all the data to the new db and started testing it. as a comparison i run a store procedure whose ...
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DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS not included in mysqldump

I'm dumping my stored procedures only using the following command: mysqldump --routines --no-create-info --no-data --no-create-db --skip-opt databasename -u username -p > outputfile.sql but the ...
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'Conversion failed' error with ORDER BY CASE expression

I have the following Stored Procedure that works great EXCEPT when I set the 'OrderBy' to 'OrderNumber'. I get the following error: Conversion failed when converting the nvarchar value 'SK11270' to ...
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How can I know which store procedure or trigger is using a table on SQL Server 2008 R2?

This is the case that in the DB I'm checking, there is an archive table which keeps the user history, and there is a trigger or store procedure that after some time delete rows from this table, in ...
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Who changed/modified stored procedure in SSMS 2005 or 2008? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Determining how a schema change occurred? I have a stored procedure that was modified late last night and just spent the majority of the morning tracing issues back to ...
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What is the best method to add error handling in SQL 2005 stored procs?

What’s a good way to make stored procs robust enough that they can scale very well and also contain error handling? Additionally, whats the best way to handle multiple error scenarios in a stored ...
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Performance of a Trigger vs Stored Procedure in MySQL

A post here on DBA.StackExchange (What are the best practices for triggers to maintain a revision number on records?) has spawned an interesting question (at least, interesting to me) regarding ...
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Suddenly Slow Execution Plan for Stored Proc

I'm trying to understand an issue we're having with SQL Server 2000. We are a moderately transactional website and we have a stored proc called sp_GetCurrentTransactions which accepts a customerID, ...
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Dump only the Stored Procedures in MySQL

I need to dump only the stored procedures : no data, no table creation. How can I do this using mysqldump?
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Passing in the table into a stored procedure

Is it possible to pass in the name of a table into a stored procedure? For example, suppose you have several views of the same table. They all have the exact same structure. You want a store ...
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Call a stored procedure from a trigger

I have created a stored procedure in mysql using the following syntax. DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS `sp-set_comment_count`; DELIMITER $$ CREATE PROCEDURE `sp_set-comment_count` (IN _id INT) BEGIN -- ...
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SQL Server: How to call stored procedure without schema name?

SQL Server 2005std/2008web edition db=user=schema=owner='John' I'm moving website from one server to another. This piece of code works well on old server with SQL Server 2005. Dim sqlCmdVehicle ...
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BACKUP failed to complete - with spaces, for no reason

Every day my database backup fails for some databases and does fine for others. I'm calling the backup through a Stored Procedure that runs scheduled in a job. Tonight I'm going to run the procedure ...
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how to dump a single stored procedure from a database

I need to create a dump file that contains a single stored procedure from a database. Not all routines from that database
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how to write pl/sql named programme for this [closed]

I have a table M_PARAMETER which has a column MMRUN. When this MMRUN='Y' then the User can not modify any transaction in the app's front end. When MMRUN='N' then the User can do the modification. ...
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How do you ORDER BY a parameter?

Just wondering if I could solicit some feedback on a stored procedure I'm running and whether there's a more efficient way of handling the scenario (I'm pretty sure there will be!). Basically I have ...
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MySQL: Tree-Hierarchical query

SUB-TREE WITHIN A TREE in MySQL In my MYSQL Database COMPANY, I have a Table: Employee with recursive association, an employee can be boss of other employee. A self relationship of kind (SuperVisor ...
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Optimization: Moving variable declarations to the top of your procedure

While working on optimizing some stored procedures, I sat down with the DBA and went through some sprocs with high blocking and/or high read/write activity. One thing the DBA mentioned was I should ...
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Is table aliasing a bad practice?

I remember learning to do this in a DBMS course for Master of Information Services students. To save yourself some typing, you can type: SELECT t1.id, t2.stuff FROM someTable t1 ...
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Resolving issue with mysql.proc after upgrading MySQL from 5.0.* to 5.1.*

Like many others, we upgraded our instance of MySQL from 5.0.* to 5.1.49. Since then, we've been running into an error that repeats itself when we perform certain actions: Attempting to view or run ...
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Stored procedure executes too long

We use SQL Server 2008. When I am watching in SQL Server Profiler I found some queries that take for example 20 seconds. The same query (in a stored procedure) when executed in SQL Server Management ...
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Data Truncated for Column

DECLARE float_one, float_two, my_result NUMERIC(7,2) my_result = CONVERT(float_one/float_two, DECIMAL(7,2)); In this mysql query, I do this type of operation in a stored procedure, but the Linux ...
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Can mysqldump dump triggers and procedures?

Is there any way of making a mysqldump which will save all the triggers and procedures from a specified db? Some time ago I read that mysqldump will also save my triggers, but it doesn't look like ...
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Passing array parameters to a stored procedure [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Technique for sending lots of data into stored proc I frequently come across the situation where I want to pass an array of Ids as a parameter to a stored procedure. ...
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Stored Procedure to return dynamically created table data

Quick back story, we are working with an outside vendor that has a survey system. The system is not necessarily designed the best in that when you create a new survey and the system creates a new ...
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How do you submit a List of items to a Stored Procedure to limit results? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Passing array parameters to a stored procedure Lets say you want to filter results by a List of uniqueidentifiers such that your SQL statement would read: WHERE ...
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Do SQL Server stored procedures cache data results?

I have heard this from friends, but I never investigated whether this is true. Is it true that the data results of an executed query are stored in cache? I mean, if I have a stored procedure like : ...
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Most efficient way to return multiple aggregates in a single stored proc?

What is the best or most efficient way to get multiple aggregate result values? Basically I have an email app and wanted to get all the numbers of messages for each type of folder (inbox, sent, ...
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Conditional compilation of SQL Server stored procedure

Short version: Is there some way to conditionally compile chunks of TSQL code in a SQL Server Data Project using SQL Server Data Tools for Visual Studio 2010? I'm using SQL Server Data Tools in ...
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Is commit necessary after DML operation in Function/Procedure?

I wonder to know if it is necessary to write commit after insert/delete/update in function/procedure? Example: create or replace function test_fun return number is begin delete from a; return ...
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SQL Server 2008 T-SQL select hanging, but not dead locked

This is a pretty strange issue so bear with me. I have a stored proc that does some heavy duty processing. When it runs well it usually takes a few minutes depending on server load, but occasionally ...
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How do you copy a table from MySqlServer_A to MySqlServer_B?

I have a daily task that collects data from 3 MySql Servers and then pushes that aggregate data back out to each of the servers deleting the previous days data. All servers are MySql. I would like to ...
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MySQL stored procedure: loop through table, delete rows. Logic problem: won't exit loop because of LIMIT option in query

I've created a procedure to loop through large InnoDB tables and delete a chunk of rows, then pause and repeat until max field value allowed is reached. Binary logging is enabled, but I'm leaving it ...
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performance issues when concurrent requests

We are using SQL Server 2008 R2 on a Windows Server 2008 server. We have some main functions which uses some Stored Procedures which has a lot of sub-queries inside of it. I'll take one SP as an ...
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Stored Procedure doesn't show result in SQL Server

I have created a stored procedure (to be used in SSRS) that has parameters whose values are more than one. When I execute this stored procedure in SSMS by providing the values for that parameter, SP ...
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don't want to be able creating stored procedures with incorrect

Right now I can execute a CREATE PROCEDURE or an ALTER PROCEDURE script with incorrect table and column references in the MS SQL Server Management Studio and using ADO.NET commands. The scripts run ...
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Concatenation of setof type or setof record

I use Postgresql 9.1 with Ubuntu 12.04. In a plpgsql function I try to concatenate setof type returned from another function. the type pair_id_value in question is created with create type ...
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Declare variable of table type in PL/pgSQL

I am wondering if there is a way to declare a variable of type table in PL/pgSQL to hold query results? For instance how can I express something like: q1 = select * from foo; q2 = select * from bar; ...
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SELECT Data Set Using Stored Procedure with BCP Error

All, I have a BCP export query. It is failing with the useless error mesage on BCP usage: usage: bcp {dbtable | query} {in | out | queryout | format} datafile [-m maxerrors] [-f ...
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Why are these queries slow in some environments and not others? Can we fix their performance?

The following stored procedures in a MySQL 5.x environment: DELIMITER // CREATE PROCEDURE sp_belongs_to (IN schemaName VARCHAR(100), IN tableName VARCHAR(100)) BEGIN SELECT TABLE_NAME as ...
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What is the best way to insert a XML input to an oracle table in stored procedure?

I want to write a stored procedure which has a XML input (clob type) and inserts the data to a table. my XML structure is something like this: <rowset> <row> ...
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Preloading a Java library in DB2, similar to ORACLE's loadjava

Edit to add details to clarify, based on Chris' comment: A Java stored procedure depends on external libraries. Locally it compiles successfully, since they are added to the classpath. But when ...
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TSQL - Bringing Data Together from Different Sources …refactoring PK and FKs

I have various offices and one central head office. Each office has its own SQL Server instance so each office has its own data set with its own set of IDs. Each office has already imported data ...