4 Stored Procedure Language
This chapter describes the Stored Procedure Language (SPL). SPL is a highly productive, procedural programming language for writing custom procedures, functions, triggers, and packages for Advanced Server that provides:
This chapter describes the basic elements of an SPL program, before providing an overview of the organization of an
SPL program and how it is used to create a procedure or a function. Triggers, while still utilizing
SPL, are sufficiently different to warrant a separate discussion
(see Section 5 for information about triggers). Packages are discussed in Section 6.
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