Stored Procedures in MySQL

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module S163. This module is presented on Private Courses and Specially Run Courses only

Articles and tips on this subject		updated
2749	Delegate Question - defining MySQL table relationships as you create the tables Q - Can define how tables are linked (joined together) when you set them up in MySQL, rather than having to specify the join each time that you SELECT data from the tables? What a great (and logical) idea, but it's not straightforward / automatically available. The current / default system in the ...	2010-05-02
2447	MySQL stored procedures / their use on the web from PHP Are there times when your PHP will pull a large result set back from MySQL, or have to make a large number of queries, just to further process the data into a relatively small dynamic section of a report? If so, why not have the MySQL do more of the work and return a much shorter, more processes results ...	2009-10-10
2446	Learn about MySQL stored procedures Current releases of MySQL include "stored procedures". What are they? You may start by considering stored procedures to be "Macros" - a series of commands bunched together as one, or a complex command which is held within the MySQL daemon and called up by just a simple call. But they then go much ...	2009-10-09

Examples from our training material

seed.sql	Data to seed tables for stored procedure demos
stored3.php	PHP call to a stored procedure to run a fixed query
stored4.php	PHP call to a MySQL stored procedure passing a parameter
stored5.php	PHP call to a MySQL stored procedure that returns a result set
stored6.php	PHP call to a MySQL store procedure that calculates / loops
stp3	Simple stored procedure definition
stp4	Stored procedure to return a result set
stp5	Stored Procedure taking a parameter
stp6	Stored procedure calculating from a query
twcrp.sql	MySQLdump sample - twcrp test database for store procedure use

Background information

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Topics covered in this module

What are stored procedures, functions and triggers?
Accessing tables within stored procedures.
Variables, conditionals and loops.
Cursors and handling end of query conditions.
Creating, showing and dropping stored procedures.

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