Calling a Procedure v13

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A procedure can be invoked from another SPL program by simply specifying the procedure name followed by its parameters, if any, followed by a semicolon.

<name> [ ([ <parameters> ]) ];

Where:

name is the identifier of the procedure.

parameters is a list of actual parameters.

Note

  • If there are no actual parameters to be passed, the procedure may be called with an empty parameter list, or the opening and closing parenthesis may be omitted entirely.

  • The syntax for calling a procedure is the same as in the preceding syntax diagram when executing it with the EXEC command in PSQL or EDB*Plus. See the Database Compatibility for Oracle Developers SQL Guide for information about the EXEC command.

The following is an example of calling the procedure from an anonymous block:

BEGIN
   simple_procedure;
END;

That's all folks!
Note

Each application has its own unique way to call a procedure. For example, in a Java application, the application programming interface, JDBC, is used.

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