What is difference between Procedures and Functions ?

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What is difference between Procedures and Functions ?..

Answer / roopesh kumar

(1) Procedure may or may not return value but function
should.

(2) We can't call a procedure inside a sql stmt but
function can.

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What is difference between Procedures and Functions ?..

Answer / guest

Hi,

Basic Difference is Function must return a value and
Procedure can or cannot return a value using out parameter.



Thanks!

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What is difference between Procedures and Functions ?..

Answer / manojbatra071

a procedure can return none,one or more than one value but a
function can return one and only one value everytime

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What is difference between Procedures and Functions ?..

Answer / shasi

Hi,

The main think is function canbe used in sql select
statement but procedure wer can't use.procedure redurn more
then value(max:1024)funcion must return 1 value

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What is difference between Procedures and Functions ?..

Answer / sandeep sahoo

Prcocedure Will do Action whereas Function Will do Calculation

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What is difference between Procedures and Functions ?..

Answer / devi

1.procedure does not return any value whree as functions
return values
2.a procedure can be called independently where as a
function is called inside a procedure

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