Summary: in this tutorial, we will show you step by step how to develop the first MySQL stored procedure by using CREATE PROCEDURE statement. In addition, we will show you how to call the stored procedures from SQL statements.
Writing the first MySQL stored procedure
We are going to develop a simple stored procedure named GetAllProducts()
to help you get familiar with the syntax. The GetAllProducts()
stored procedure selects all products from the products
table.
Launch the mysql
client tool and type the following commands:
DELIMITER // CREATE PROCEDURE GetAllProducts() BEGIN SELECT * FROM products; END // DELIMITER ;
Let’s examine the stored procedure in greater detail:
The first command is
DELIMITER //
, which is not related to the stored procedure syntax. TheDELIMITER
statement changes the standard delimiter which is semicolon (;
) to another. In this case, the delimiter is changed from the semicolon(;
) to double-slashes//
. Why do we have to change the delimiter? Because we want to pass the stored procedure to the server as a whole rather than lettingmysql
tool to interpret each statement at a time. Following theEND
keyword, we use the delimiter//
to indicate the end of the stored procedure. The last command (DELIMITER;
) changes the delimiter back to the standard one.We use the
CREATE PROCEDURE
statement to create a new stored procedure. We specify the name of stored procedure after theCREATE PROCEDURE
statement. In this case, the name of the stored procedure isGetAllProducts
. We put the parentheses after the name of the stored procedure.The section between
BEGIN
andEND
is called the body of the stored procedure. You put the declarative SQL statements in the body to handle business logic. In this stored procedure, we use a simple SELECT statement to query data from theproducts
table.
It’s kind of tedious to write the stored procedure in mysql
client tool, especially when the stored procedure is complex. Most of the GUI tools for MySQL allow you to create new stored procedures via an intuitive interface.
For example, in MySQL Workbench, you can create a new stored procedure as follows:
Right mouse click on the Routines and choose “Create Procedure…”
Enter the stored procedure code and click the Apply button
You can review the code before MySQL stores it in the database. Click Apply button if everything is good.
MySQL compiles and puts the stored procedure in the database catalog; click the Finish button.
You can see a new stored procedure created under Routines of the classicmodelsdatabase
We have created a new stored procedure. Now, it’s time to learn how to use it.
Calling stored procedures
In order to call a stored procedure, you use the following SQL command:
CALL STORED_PROCEDURE_NAME()
You use the CALL
statement to call a stored procedure e.g., to call the GetAllProducts
stored procedure, you use the following statement:
CALL GetAllProducts();
If you execute the statement above, you will get all products in the products
table.
In this tutorial, you have learned how to write a simple stored procedure by using the CREATE PROCEDURE
statement and call it by using the CALL
statement.
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