stored procedure
<database> A subroutine stored in a database and executed by the database
management system. The subroutine may be written in the same language in which
the database is queried and may be precompiled to improve performance.
Typically a stored procedure encapsulates some business process. Performing this
on the database server avoids the network overhead of transferring input data to
the client for processing. This would be particularly significant if processing
lots of data and returning a small result set like a total or maximum. Stored
procedures also provide consistent implementation of the business logic to
clients written in different languages and running in different environments.
Some financial systems allow databases access through stored procedures alone,
this restricts actions on the data to a small number of auditable queries.
Sybase SQL Server (Adaptive Server Enterprise) was the first commercially
successful RDBMS to support stored procedures.
(2004-03-04)
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