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SQL Antipatterns, Volume 1
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SQL Antipatterns, Volume 1

by Bill Karwin
October 2022
Intermediate to advanced
380 pages
9h 35m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
Content preview from SQL Antipatterns, Volume 1

Objective: Use Stored Procedures

Stored procedures are a feature of SQL that developers can use to put custom code into the database itself, and call those procedures from their client application.

The following example shows a MySQL stored procedure that closes any outstanding bugs for a specified product. This is implemented in a procedure so that we can run this as an update, but in a prescribed way: only bugs that currently have a status of NEW or OPEN are closed by this action. If the application had direct access to update the bugs table, they might change the status of the wrong bugs.

 CREATE​ ​PROCEDURE​ CloseUnresolvedBugsForProduct(
 IN​ given_product_id ​BIGINT​ ​UNSIGNED​)
 BEGIN
 START​ ​ ...
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