HI All I am hoping that someone with more experience than me can assist here.
I am trying to find out how to write a database procedure within MySQL, however I have never worked with procedures in my life and the resources I found on the net thus far seems greek to me... What we are trying to achieve is the following: There are currently 2 specific tables which contains archived data which are being deleted manually each day. We would like to put the delete of the data within a procedure and then have an automated process to execute the procedure. What we are using currently is the following: 1. xxxx = select max(id) from table_1 where utc < "Date"; 2. delete from table_2 where id < xxxx; 3. delete from table_1 where id < xxxx; basically we currently delete everything older than the start of yesterday but this might be changin at some point to be done hourly as the system grows. Does anybody have a good resource which explains exactly how I would be able to create this procedure or can otherwise assist or guide me? I would really appreciate the help as I would love to learn how to write procedures. Regards Machiel