Looking to bolster the enterprise-readiness of its open source database, MySQL on Monday will preview an update to its platform that adds stored procedures and server side cursor capabilities ...

A stored procedure in MySQL is a set of SQL statements that are saved and can be reused.It allows you to encapsulate complex logic into a single callable unit, which can take parameters and return ...

Stored procedures have been features in closed-source relational databases, such as Oracle, since the early 1990s. However, MySQL added stored procedure support only in the recent 5.0 release and, ...

MySQL on Wednesday announced general availability of Version 4.1 of its MySQL open source database, which the company is positioning as production-ready for large-scale enterprise usage. The ...

MySQL AB is eyeing a November release date for version 5 of itsopen-source database, ... IBM Corp. and Microsoft Corp. Chief among them are triggers, views and stored procedures. ...

In SQL, a stored procedure is a named set of one or more SQL statements that can be executed as a single unit. Think of it like this: Imagine a recipe: A stored procedure is like a saved recipe.