Can you have multiple SPs with the same name on a database?

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Can you have multiple SPs with the same name on a database? ..

Answer / jithendranath.g

both above answers are correct,but situvationd diff
1) we can't create same db obj with same name,
2) we want that go for packages ,with overloading concept

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Can you have multiple SPs with the same name on a database? ..

Answer / baba

When we create a stored procedure,if db object already
exists we will get a message that
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00955: name is already used by an existing object

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Can you have multiple SPs with the same name on a database? ..

Answer / ashok

IT WILL ONLY POSSIBLE FOR IN THE PACKAGE.
EX--
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE PK_TEST AS
PROCEDURE PR_SHOW();
PROCEDURE PR_SHOW(V_NAME VAR CHAR);
END PK_TEST;

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Can you have multiple SPs with the same name on a database? ..

Answer / suman

Hi ,

As per standard Procedure & Function we cannot create same name of Procedure but if you are using in Package you can have same name with different parameter.

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Can you have multiple SPs with the same name on a database? ..

Answer / harsha

Yes We can have multiple SP's with same name.This is called
overloading a Procedure with different parameters.
e.g. CREATE PROCEDURE COMPUTE_AREA (LENGTH IN NUMBER,
WIDTH IN NUMBER);
CREATE PROCEDURE COMPUTE_AREA (LENGTH IN NUMBER,
WIDTH IN NUMBER
UNITS IN NUMBER);

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Can you have multiple SPs with the same name on a database? ..

Answer / thra

yes procedure can have same name overloading differ in data
type ....etc;

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