Oleg Bartunov wrote:
On Sun, 20 Mar 2005, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
My understanding is that 8.1 will have a much more mature
implementation of
stored procedures versus UDFs (Which we have had forever).
What's the difference between UDF and stored procedure ?
Here are a couple of GGIYF references:
http://builder.com.com/5100-6388-1045463.html
http://blogs.pingpoet.com/vbguru/archive/2004/04/29/535.aspx
They are similar but they offer different functionality. At least in
the sense of the other databases.
Hmm, the only real difference I see - is that SP are precompiled.
I think we should clearly outline what is SP and what is UDF and do we
are working on SP or just improving and extending our functions.
I always thought that the big difference was that a SP can start and end
top level transactions whereas UDFs must execute within the scope of a
transaction started by the caller. The above article doesn't mention
this at all.
Regards,
Thomas Hallgren
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