What is the difference between a Stored procedure and function?
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Answer / sanjay das
Function allways returns value but stored procedure may or
may not return value.
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Answer / viren chakraborty
a stored procedure is better when returning one or more
rows.
a function is better when returning a single scalar value.
function and procedure, both can accept parameters and both
also support output parameters.
for programmers, stored procedures are the way to go
because they directly return the result of a given select
statment.
in a function you will explicitly have to return a value
using return statement and returning more than 1 value
using a function is much more complicated.
the procedure is capable of doing all kinds of things
(select/insert/update/delete) and hence, it is better
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Answer / orknob ghosh
Stored procs can't be called within function but function
can be called within stored procedures.
Stored proc can have DML statements whereas a fuction can't
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Answer / pandian
1.Stored Procedure WE can call Independ using Exec
statement but function always depend on sql statement
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Answer / preetam
Proceudure is pre Compiled Query but function is not
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Answer / madhavi latha
stored procedute can return only one integer value.while
function can return more than one value.
we can not use select statement with storedprocedures like
select <spname> where as UDF can.
storedprocedures can not return tables.where as UDF can
return more than one tables.
we can use functions inside the stored procedure but in UDF
we can not use storedprocedures.
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Answer / ruchi aggarwal
1.Functions can be used in select, where or case statement
whereas sp cannot.
2.In Functions we cannot modify the base table information.
DML statements cannot be used.
3.In Function non deterministic funstions are not used
whereas we can use them in sps eg:GETDATE
4.No Multiple result sets can be returned from function
whereas we can do this in sp.
5.Error handling is restricted. RAISERROR and @@ERROR are
invalid from inside User Defined Functions
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Answer / kautilya
stored procedure can not take paramateres while function
can produce results as per the values passed to it and
functions returns value
Is This Answer Correct ? | 4 Yes | 10 No |
1.stored proceudures can not return tables whereas
functions can.
2.stored procedures can not used in select statemnet
whereas functions can.
Is This Answer Correct ? | 3 Yes | 9 No |
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