16. Handling Stored Procedures and Stored Functions

This chapter explains the procedures for handling stored procedures and stored functions.

Stored procedure is a generic term for SQL stored procedures and Java stored procedures; stored function is a generic term for SQL stored functions and JavaTM stored functions.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Organization of this chapter
16.1 Before creating (registering) stored procedures or stored functions
16.2 Creating (registering) a stored procedure or stored function
16.3 Re-creating an invalidated stored procedure or stored function
16.4 Deleting a stored procedure or stored function
16.5 Creating a definition SQL from an existing stored procedure