Chapter 7. Creating and Maintaining Stored Programs
In this chapter, we’ll explain how to create, maintain, and delete stored programs .
By definition, a stored program exists in the database (it
wouldn’t be stored otherwise, right?). So the
fundamental process of creating a stored program involves submitting SQL statements to
MySQL, just as creating a table involves submitting the CREATE TABLE statement. The basic process of
creating and maintaining a stored program is very similar to that of
creating any other kind of database object: you write some SQL to create
the object and you (hopefully) save that SQL somewhere safe so that you
can reuse it later. At some later time you may alter the object (or drop
and recreate it), and you may want to find out information about
it.
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