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Function Vs Stored Procedure In SQL
I have recently started working on SQL, the function and Stored Procedure are seemed to be same. Can anyone tell whats the differences between Function and Stored Procedure?
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Posted on 23rd April 2024
Hey Justus,
The Function and Stored Procedure are the database objects that contains a set of SQL statements to complete a task.
A function is executed and compiled every time whenever it is called. It has to return values and cannot modify the data received as a parameter.
Stored Procedures are the pre-compiled objects that are compiled for the first time and its format is saved that executes whenever it is called.
key differences between Function and Stored Procedure are as follows:
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Function |
Stored Procedure |
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The function can be used in a Select statement |
Stored Procedure cannot be used in the Select statement. |
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The function allows the only Select statement |
The procedure allows Select as well as DML statement. |
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The function must return a value |
Stored Procedure is optional it can even return a zero or n values. |
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Try-catch block cannot be used in a function |
In the procedure, an exception can be handled by the try-catch block. |
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We cannot use the transaction |
We can use a transaction. |
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The function can have input parameters only |
the procedure can have both input and output parameters |
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A function can be called from Procedure |
The procedure cannot be called from function. |
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